Re: LSX Command > Add text to file

Thanks for this!  This is my first time with Lua, so I have a few follow-up
questions:

1.  Do I need any of the Lua packages to run this?  e.g. textedit?
2.  How do I confirm the path to the blah.txt file?  I tried:

OUTFILE = 'c:\\blah.txt"

but that didn't seem to work.  Thank you very much for this though, looks
pretty cool.




On Dec 11, 2007 6:32 AM, Jochen Ritzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Some Lua:
> [code, copy to some file and *luascriptfile it]
> -- config this.
> local clienttracker = {
>     OUTFILE = 'blah.txt',
>     -- if you want some formatting, you can set that here
>     INFORMAT = '%s*([^>]*) > (.*)%s*', -- the input string is parsed with
> this pattern
>     OUTFORMAT = '%s | %s',          -- and formatted with this pattern
> afterwards ... you could add tabs ( \t ) here ...
>     TIMESTAMP = true,
>     TIMEFORMAT = '%c', --see
> http://www.thinkage.ca/english/gcos/expl/c/lib/strfti.html
>     ERROR = function(self, msg )     -- if an error occures, it is
> reported with this function
>         --lslua.message_box("An Error occured: ".. msg, "Error!" )
>         print( "An Error occured:", msg )
>     end
> }
>
> -- admire this.
> function clienttracker:_format( client, text )
>     local s = self.OUTFORMAT:format( client, text)
>     if self.TIMESTAMP then
>         return ('%s: %s\n'):format( os.date( self.TIMEFORMAT), s )
>     else
>         return s
>     end
> end
> function clienttracker:parse( s )
>     local ok, client, text = pcall( string.match, s, self.INFORMAT )
>     if not ok then return self:ERROR( client ) end
>     ok, text = pcall( self.add, self, client, text )
>     if not ok then return self:ERROR( text ) end
> end
> function clienttracker:add( client, text )
>         local fp = io.open(self.OUTFILE, "a")
>         fp:write( self:_format( client, text ) )
>         fp:close()
> end
>
> -- rename this.
> function bang_tracker( s )
>     return clienttracker:parse( s )
> end
> [/code]
>
> Usage:
> !tracker "You > I wrote you some code."
>
> Should be very easy to understand and expand ... hf
>
> --thc4k
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:22:39 +0100, Ace McKool <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to track my time at work.  I was hoping to use LSXCommand
> > (plus
> > any needed modules) to do something like:
> >
> > ?tracker "Some Client > I did this for them"
> >
> > And it would simply write the string to a file and add a timestamp if
> > possible.
> >
> > Anybody have any recommendations on how to get this started?  Thanks!
>
>
>
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