Ok, so I'm creating a Flash HUD in AS2 that runs on the Surface and connects to our server.
As it stands now, I'm having to hard code the IP addresses for the Surface to connect to, and I'm trying to get past this.
I have 4 text fields for the user to enter the 4 fields of IP address data. My issue at the moment is that if I set the String variable literally, it works fine. But if I dynamically create the string, instead of outputting on one line, it outputs each of the 4 strings separately.
Here's my code:
var newIP1 = getIP.IPtext.IP1.text; //grabbing the data from the UI
var newIP2 = getIP.IPtext.IP2.text;
var newIP3 = getIP.IPtext.IP3.text;
var newIP4 = getIP.IPtext.IP4.text;
var ipArray = new Array(newIP1,newIP2,newIP3,newIP4); //setting the array
trace (ipArray.join(".")); // output the string, replacing the commas with a period
//output:
//10
//.255
//.255
//.22
//If I do this it works fine
var IPstr = "10.255.255.2";
trace(IPstr);
// output: 10.255.255.22
I appreciate any help on this, thanks in advance.
Your code looks good and should work as expected.
One thing to check would be to see if there isn't a carriage return or newline character being added to each individual input box. One way to check would be to check the length of each of your input strings to ensure there isn't an invisible character there.
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First time posting here. I'm an experienced coding, but it's been a long time since I've done any, and I'm starting back up with App Script, a new language for me. I'm trying to do some basic stuff with text found within cells in a Google sheets. I've gotten it to work well enough, but I think my code can be simplified and improved if I learn a little bit more about working with text strings in App Script.
This is a very simplified version of my function. My real function finds the page numbers given in a citation in one cell, and puts just those page numbers in another cell. For the purposes of this question, I've simplified it to retrieve the text from the current cell, remove the first blank space in the text, count the numbers at the beginning of the text, and then write just those numbers into the current cell. It does what it is supposed to do, and what I need it to do, but I have so many questions! Thank you!!
function myFunction() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive(); var
currentCell = spreadsheet.getCurrentCell().activate();
var style = SpreadsheetApp.newTextStyle().setForegroundColor('#000000').build();
var textString = currentCell.getRichTextValue().getText();
var count = 0;
var char = textString.substring(count,count+1);
textString = textString.replace(" ","");
while(char<10)
{
count = count+1;
char = textString.substring(count,count+1);
}
var numbers = textString.substring(0,count);
currentCell.setRichTextValue(SpreadsheetApp.newRichTextValue().setText(numbers)
.setTextStyle(1, count, style).build());
};
In retrieving my textString, is there a way to do it without using "getRichTextValue()"?
In writing the new text (numbers), is there a way to do that without using "setRichTextValue()"? And to do it without specifying the style?
In my while loop, I use char<10. This works, but I'm not sure why. char is a one character string, right? The character is a number, but I am thinking I shouldn't be able to compare with a number because it's a string? Also, it actually lets blank spaces through as well, so I know something is wrong. What can I do instead?
How can I get the replace function to remove ALL the blank spaces in my textString?
Here is a modified version of your script using Regex.
The reason your code char<10 works is it is comparing the ASCII value of the character with A being 10 and 0 to 9 being ASCII value 0 to 9.
function myFunction() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var currentCell = spreadsheet.getCurrentCell(); // returns a range, no need to activate
var textString = currentCell.getValue();
// use reges to remove all blank spaced
textString = textString.replace(/\s/g,"");
// use regex to get the first string of digits
// match returns an array so we need the first element of the array
var numbers = textString.match(/\d+/)[0];
currentCell.setValue(numbers)
}
Reference
Range.getValue()
Range.setValue()
Regex tester
I'm building a command parser and I've successfully managed to split strings into separate words and get it all working, but the one thing I'm a bit stumped at is how to remove all punctuation from the string. Users will input characters like , . ! ? often, but with those characters there, it doesn't recognize the word, so any punctuation will need to be removed.
So far I've tested this:
func process_command(_input: String) -> String:
var words:Array = _input.replace("?", "").to_lower().split(" ", false)
It works fine and successfully removes question marks, but I want it to remove all punctuation. Hoping this will be a simple thing to solve! I'm new to Godot so still learning how a lot of the stuff works in it.
You could remove an unwantes character by putting them in an array and then do what you already are doing:
var str_result = input
var unwanted_chars = [".",",",":","?" ] #and so on
for c in unwanted_chars:
str_result = str_result.replace(c,"")
I am not sure what you want to achieve in the long run, but parsing strings can be easier with the use of regular expressions. So if you want to search strings for apecific patterns you should look into this:
regex
Given some input, which I'll just write here as example:
var input := "Hello, It's me!!"
We want to get a modified version where we have filtered the characters:
var output := ""
We need to know what we will filter. For example:
var deny_list := [",", "!"]
We could have a list of things we accept instead, you would just flip a conditional later on.
And then we can iterate over the string, for each character decide if we want to keep it, and if so add it to the output:
for position in input.length():
var current_character := input[position]
if not deny_list.has(current_character):
output += current_character
I'm trying to write a parser in arcsecond, but it keeps cutting off the strings right before the commas.
I want to turn a custom data format into JSON, and the way it's currently structured, each line up until the first space is the key and everything after that is the value.
The problem is that my code stops reading the line when it hits a comma. I've checked it in a regex checker and it works fine there.
Relevant code:
const key = regex(/^[\t]?[A-Za-z]{1,20}[0-9]?/);
const alphaSpacesPunctuation = regex(/^[A-Za-z ,.:;?!'"]{3,300}/);
const value = choice([alphaUnderscore, alphaSpacesPunctuation, alphaOnly, pstring, integer, decimal, expo, triplet, quotes, textureName, regionName]);
const kvParser = choice([ sequenceOf([key, regex(/^[ ]{1,2}/), value]), empty, openBracket, closedBracket ]);
The line it's looking at is
About For over twenty years, she has lived in Canada.
It's separating "About" from the rest like it should, but stops right after "years". It does the same thing for a few other value strings, too. All the other punctuation marks get picked up as normal.
What might be causing this? Am I missing something super obvious?
I am stuck on a very annoying problem. Here is what I am trying to achieve. I read the latitude and longitude in two text boxes and then split each of the pair on a comma as that is what they are separated by. Then I need to parse them and create a LatLng object to create a Google marker. My problem for some reason is splitting the string. I know that all I need to do is use String.split() method to achieve it. Here is what I do:
Lets say the value in text box is 26.2338, 81.2336
//Reading the value in text boxes on HTML form
var sourceLocation =document.getElementById("source").value;
//Remove any spaces in between coordinates
var newString =sourceLocation.replace(/\s/g, '');
//Split the string on ,
newString.split(",");
//Creating latitude longitude objects of the source and destination
var newLoc =new google.maps.LatLng(parseFloat(newString[0]),parseFloat(newString[1]));
Now I am unable to understand as to why newString[0] just gives me 2 while it should give 26.2338. Similarly, newString[1] gives 6 instead of 81.2336. What am I doing wrong?? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
String.split() returns an array, it doesn't modify the string to somehow make it into an array. You want
var parts = newString.split(",");
var newLoc = new google.maps.LatLng(parseFloat(parts[0]),parseFloat(parts[1]));
I am currently attempting to parse data that is sent from an outside source serially. An example is as such:
DATA|0|4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_
This data can come in many different lengths, but the first few pieces are all the same. Each "piece" originally comes in with CRLF after, so I've replaced them with string.gsub(input,"\r\n","|") so that is why my input looks the way it does.
The part I would like to parse is:
4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_
The "4" tells me that there will be four lines total to create this file. I'm using this as a means to set the amount of passes in the loop.
The 7x5 is the font height.
The 1 is the xpos.
The 25 is the ypos.
The variable data (172-24 in this case) is the text at these parameters.
As you can see, it should continue to loop this pattern throughout the input string received. Now the "4" can actually be any variable > 0; with each number equaling a set of four variables to capture.
Here is what I have so far. Please excuse the loop variable, start variable, and print commands. I'm using Linux to run this function to try to troubleshoot.
function loop_input(input)
var = tonumber(string.match(val, "DATA|0|(%d*).*"))
loop = string.match(val, "DATA|0|")
start = string.match(val, loop.."(%d*)|.*")
for obj = 1, var do
for i = 1, 4 do
if i == 1 then
i = "font" -- want the first group to be set to font
elseif i == 2 then
i = "xpos" -- want the second group to be set to xpos
elseif i == 3 then
i = "ypos" -- want the third group to be set to ypos
else
i = "txt" -- want the fourth group to be set to text
end
obj = font..xpos..ypos..txt
--print (i)
end
objects = objects..obj -- concatenate newly created obj variables with each pass
end
end
val = "DATA|0|4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_"
print(loop_input(val))
Ideally, I want to create a loop that, depending on the var variable, will plug in the captured variables between the pipe deliminators and then I can use them freely as I wish. When trying to troubleshoot with parenthesis around my four variables (like I have above), I receive the full list of four variables four times in a row. Now I'm having difficulty actually cycling through the input string and actually grabbing them out as the loop moves down the data string. I was thinking that using the pipes as a means to delineate variables from one another would help. Am I wrong? If it doesn't matter and I can keep the [/r/n]+ instead of each "|" then I am definitely all for that.
I've searched around and found some threads that I thought would help but I'm not sure if tables or splitting the inputs would be advisable. Like these threads:
Setting a variable in a for loop (with temporary variable) Lua
How do I make a dynamic variable name in Lua?
Most efficient way to parse a file in Lua
I'm fairly new to programming and trying to teach myself. So please excuse my beginner thread. I have both the "Lua Reference Manual" and "Programming in Lua" books in paperback which is how I've tried to mock my function(s) off of. But I'm having a problem making the connection.
I thank you all for any input or guidance you can offer!
Cheers.
Try this:
val = "DATA|0|4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_"
val = val .. "|"
data = val:match("DATA|0|%d+|(.*)$")
for fh,xpos,ypos,text in data:gmatch("(.-)|(.-)|(.-)|(.-)|") do
print(fh,xpos,ypos,text)
end