Select Single Paragraph From Text File At Random

[LosOjos]

Hi both, sorry it's been an age since I logged in. I don't have the code on the machine I'm on at the moment, it's on my laptop at home, when I get home I'll tweak it so that it just returns the specified line when it detects that the file isn't a CSV/TSV.

 

I'll post the new version up tomorrow for you

[6Foot2]

Thanks again with all of your help on this.

[LosOjos]

Just a quick update: sorry to keep you waiting! Been a hectic couple of weeks for me personally so I haven't gotten round to this yet (taking on a second job is very tiring!) but I will get it sorted by the weekend. Sorry again to keep you waiting, just thought I'd post an update so you don't think I've forgotten about it!

[6Foot2]

That is good to hear. I wouldn't push this: You are helping and I look forward to having the solution.

 

Thanks again.

[LosOjos]

Finally got round to tweaking it for you! I strongly suggest you test it out first as I haven't had the time to, things are manic here right now, but it should now return the selected line from a file even if it was expecting columns, with a message posted to the command prompt to let you know that's what it has done.

 

Any problems let me know and I'll do my best to solve them a lot quicker this time.

 

GetLine.zip

[6Foot2]

Test result [running from command line]

 

This is not a comma/tab seperated file, returning entire line instead.

 

All good then.

 

Thank you. I can now ask my users for their IP addresses again.

 

Edit: Now confirmed: Working at stations where it did not previously work. Thanks.

Edited September 6, 2010 by 6Foot2
Add detail to the post.