egghelp/eggheads community Discussion of eggdrop bots, shell accounts and tcl scripts. 2004-01-29T23:59:04-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/app.php/feed/topic/6738 2004-01-29T23:59:04-04:00 2004-01-29T23:59:04-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=33082#p33082 <![CDATA[reading txt file line]]>
bind time - "* * * * *" put:getnews

proc put:getnews { min hour day month year } {
exec lynx -preparsed -dump -width=5000 http://www.url.com > news/mkw.txt
}

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:59 pm

]]> 2004-01-29T23:57:08-04:00 2004-01-29T23:57:08-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=33081#p33081 <![CDATA[reading txt file line]]>
Have done a search in the forum and tried a few things but can't find/understand quite what I need.

I have a news txt file (news\mkw.txt) which lynx dumps every minute and I want to read the line which has /04 in it.

Here are 2 example lines of the raw line from the file:

9:03pm 01/29/04 NIKKEI DOWN 35.00 POINTS AT 10,744.44 BY MIDDAY BREAK

8:56pm 01/29/04 [[12]CAJ] NIKKO CITI THINKS CANON '04 ESTIMATES 'EASY TO ACHIEVE'

I'd like to send it to channel without the time and date in front, but display a time in USET 24 hour format like 20:56 (the bot sits in GMT timezone which is USET +5hrs)
A couple of other things is that if there's a ticker symbol at the start of the headline (the letters in the [ ]) I want to ignore the number that lynx assigns to it (normally anything from [7] through [15] - but if there's no ticker on the story, there is no number), also if the headline is the same as last time it read the file (ie not a new story) then for the bot not to send anything.

Would appreciate any help!
Thanks.

Statistics: Posted by NewzUK — Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:57 pm

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