Strang square at end of Text read from file

[Mads Juul]

I want to create text brushes from text files with George
I have a text file called "test.txt" in my TEMP directory on my Windows Computer
I Have one line in the text file with the text "mads"
If I run this script

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tv_getPath Temp
	temp =  result
	
	myFile =  tempDir"test.txt"
	
	tv_readtextfile  0 myFile
	read = result
	PARSE read line string
	tv_textBrush string

I get a custom brush with a strange square at the end

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I guess TVpaint is reading the new line wrong. So I guess this is a bug?
How can I avoid this?
-Mads

[Paul Fierlinger]

I don't know if there is a connection, but on the Vegas forum there has been some discussions of this happening to some users and the explanation can be found here:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-wi ... tch-209684" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Mads Juul]

I dont think there is a connection. The square is a symbol for that TVPaint is misinterprenting "the new line"
IF I rrun this code

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PARAM none

tv_getPath Temp
temp =  result

myFile =  temp"test.txt"

tv_readtextfile  0 myFile
read = result
PARSE read line string

tv_reqstring [MULTILINE] "Get text|"string
tv_textBrush result

I get this brush result

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So the tv_regstring read a new line correctly as "\n", which I can replace with nothing with the function Replace(string,'\n',' ')

So I would like the tv_readtextfile 0 myFile
to read new lines as "/n"
I consider it a bug that it is not reading new lines correct.
-Mads

[Svengali]

Hi Mads,

I haven't tested your script code but I wonder if the square (unidentified character) is being introduced because you first assign the RESULT to the variable READ, then you are parsing the contents of the variable READ.

Try instead simply parsing the RESULT of the tv_readtextfile.

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tv_readtextfile  0 myFile
PARSE result line string

Sven

[Mads Juul]

Hi Mads,

I haven't tested your script code but I wonder if the square (unidentified character) is being introduced because you first assign the RESULT to the variable READ, then you are parsing the contents of the variable READ.

Try instead simply parsing the RESULT of the tv_readtextfile.

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tv_readtextfile  0 myFile
PARSE result line string

Sven

No it gives the same result.
It must be the tv_readtextfile that interprets new line wrong
the test.txt file should of course have a new line. for instance my test.txt have this 2 lines

mads
juul

[Svengali]

OK. One other work around might be to include a character (to act as a terminator for each word you are trying to convert in the list) something like an asterisk...

mads*
juul*


In your script you would then process the result of a textline read, to extract only up to the asterisk, giving you the word you want for each line... hopefully that would clip off the unrecognized character at the end of each line in the text file.

This should give you a functional result until a solution can be discovered in a future fixed version of TVPaint.

Sven

[Mads Juul]

Assuming the last char is a unrecognised "new line" I could do this

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PARAM none
tv_getPath Temp
temp =  result

myFile =  temp"test.txt"

tv_readtextfile  0 myFile

PARSE result line string

length = LEN(string)
length=length-1
string = CUT(string,1,length)
tv_textBrush string

And if I wanted a new line I can do this

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string = string"\n"
tv_reqstring [MULTILINE] "Get text|"string

But it could be nice if this bug is fixed

[Elodie]

Send your prayers to the God of the Development

[Mads Juul]

Send your prayers to the God of the Development

I will