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#136697 - 2005-03-29 08:07 PM Readline Question
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The marketing dept has come up with this great idea (sarcastic font) that they want something to pop up telling the reps "Happy Birthday". I am trying to figure out some way to say something like If @userid = one of the names in a text file then run the birtday.exe. I know this is vague, but I am slow (it is actually warm here so I am in a work slow down). I have also spent all morning looking through the site to find something to do this. Thank you all for your help
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#136698 - 2005-03-29 08:11 PM Re: Readline Question
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Try doing a search on birthday here on the board and I'm sure you'll come up with some code examples to do it. If not let us know and we can provide it again.
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#136699 - 2005-03-29 08:15 PM Re: Readline Question
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I think ini might even be better for this task.
say, each day has it's names:
[bsdays]
2/12/2005=john,ken,larissa,booboo,

and then you could just fire it with:
Code:

$todays=readprofilestring(@scriptdir+"\specialday.ini","bsdays",@date)
if instr($todays,@userid+",")
 "hello babe"
endif
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#136700 - 2005-03-29 08:20 PM Re: Readline Question
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nice !
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#136701 - 2005-03-29 08:26 PM Re: Readline Question
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What does the format of the INI need to be?

I put that code in and it doesn't do anything.
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#136702 - 2005-03-29 08:29 PM Re: Readline Question
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ini has header key and value.

[header1]
key1=valueofit
key2=valueOfThat
[header2]
key1=here_we_have_something too
key2= and here.


basically, keynames are unique inside a section.
and sections need to have unique names.

but as showed above, you only need the one section and just add the keys for each day needed.
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#136703 - 2005-03-29 08:32 PM Re: Readline Question
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and what the ini should look like...
well, lookie above in the post where I explain it.
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#136704 - 2005-03-29 08:33 PM Re: Readline Question
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And make sure you name the file specialday.ini and put it in the same folder as your script.
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#136705 - 2005-03-29 08:34 PM Re: Readline Question
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Ok here is my ini:

[bsdays]
2/12/2005=joshraymer

Here is my code:

$todays=ReadProfileString(@scriptdir+"\specialday.ini","bsdays",@date)
If InStr($todays,@userid+",")
"hello babe"
EndIf

Nothing happens
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#136706 - 2005-03-29 08:38 PM Re: Readline Question
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You saying nobody is having a birthday today ?
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#136707 - 2005-03-29 08:38 PM Re: Readline Question
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2/12/2005 denotes in my example the date. birtday.
that is, it will happen only on that date. right?
as in the readprofilestring line we have set it to fire for @date.

if you want to test it, just put today in there.
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#136708 - 2005-03-29 08:39 PM Re: Readline Question
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Correct that is why I changed my ini to reflect todays date. Shouldn't I see a pop up on my screen or something if this is working?
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#136709 - 2005-03-29 08:55 PM Re: Readline Question
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The DATE format of the .INI is incorrect.

Change it to 2005/03/29
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#136710 - 2005-03-29 09:04 PM Re: Readline Question
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Yeah I tried that too.
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#136711 - 2005-03-29 09:06 PM Re: Readline Question
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1) What do you get when you display the date, like this:

? "DATE=" @DATE

2) This script doesn't popup a messagebox, it just displays a message to the DOS console window.

-Shawn
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#136712 - 2005-03-29 09:26 PM Re: Readline Question
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hey, one thing.
in my code there is instr and it checks for userID+","
that means that after each user name there must be comma.
why? so usernames that are partial matches can't happen.
like, without the comma check, user "mama" and "mamamia" would get mixed up.

add the comma to your value and report back.
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#136713 - 2005-03-29 09:47 PM Re: Readline Question
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Doh! yeah I saw that too about the comma put forgot to say anything.

Well, trying to cover all bases... maybe add

GET $Pause to the end of the script if he is using WKIX32 and it is flying by to quick for him to see.
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#136714 - 2005-03-29 09:48 PM Re: Readline Question
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I am slow. We had some guy quit so I was logged in as him doing some testing against his account. So I had my name in the ini file but was logged in as his name!!!! Thanks for the help and PLEASE don't hold this against me in future postings!
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#136715 - 2005-03-29 09:55 PM Re: Readline Question
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cool.
so you running it now?
if you go ahead and indeed do something more complex or go to production with it... could you post your results?
like, it's partly our baby or at least relative or something now
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#136716 - 2005-03-29 10:37 PM Re: Readline Question
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Yeah as soon it gets finalized I'll put it out here. Thanks again!
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