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Jyotiprakash
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2 years ago
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Not able to read nextline in paragraph using vbscript nextline commands (i.e vbnewline,vbclrf etc).

I am using vbscript language and I have converted pdf to text and all the texts are stored in a varieble . Now I Want each words to get stored  in a array or list. For that I am spliting them and storing. But Splitting for nextline is not working. when I am using vbscript commands like  vbnewline,vbclrf etc to read nextline in text its

not reading them. Its able to print two texts in next line, but If I want to read nextline character its not reading at all.

 

 

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  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    2 years ago

    You need to check what character(s) is between Business Use and Name: APMP-00004707, as it could be either vbCr, vbCrLf or vbLf. I've never used PDF.ConvertToText() method, so I don't know what it uses for return line.

     

    Once you have figured out the character, then you can store each line into an array

     

     

     

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    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    2 years ago

    Here's a small example,

    Sub main()
    myString = "TestComplete is a functional automated testing platform developed by SmartBear Software." & vbCrLf _
        & "TestComplete gives testers the ability to create automated tests for Microsoft Windows, Web, Android, and iOS applications."
    
    myWord = Split(myString, vbCrLf)
    for each word in myWord
        Log.Message(word)
    next
End Sub

    There's plenty of references on the internet, if you do a search

    • Jyotiprakash's avatar
      Jyotiprakash
      Occasional Contributor
      2 years ago

      You have inserted vbclrf  in your string example.

      After converting a pdf to text using pdftotext method. the data is getting stored and coming  in nextline.

       

      String = "TestComplete is a functional
          automated testing platform 
          developed by SmartBear Software
          TestComplete gives testers the ability to create automated 
          tests for Microsoft Windows, Web, Android, and iOS applications"

      Now here This vbclrf or vbnewline is not working at all. Here how can I read nextline character.

  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    2 years ago

    In this example,

    I'm reading the clipboard text that I've copied from Notepad++. I'm showing all characters which include CR and LF.

     

    I'm using the Split method to split each line; you can also perform another Split to split each word, and then insert vbCrLf.

     

    It's important that the string is formatted correctly, to perform string manipulation

    • Jyotiprakash's avatar
      Jyotiprakash
      Occasional Contributor
      2 years ago

      I have a  PDF which has a tabular data ,After doing   c1= PDF.ConvertToText(path1) , when I am displaying my data then it is coming like this.(This is the Screenshot of data which has been read by Testcomplete)

      Now I need each word to get stored in array in vbscript.

       

      As per your above response then testcomplete is generating wrong format of data its a bug then.

       

      Otherwise there has to be some solution.Having said that Testcomplete is not reading vbscript nextline characters like vbcrlf ,vbnewline etc , where as in javascript It is reading "\n" But I want in Vbscript.

  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    2 years ago

    You need to check what character(s) is between Business Use and Name: APMP-00004707, as it could be either vbCr, vbCrLf or vbLf. I've never used PDF.ConvertToText() method, so I don't know what it uses for return line.

     

    Once you have figured out the character, then you can store each line into an array