Help with macro to check column in tab delimited textfile

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Quart
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Help with macro to check column in tab delimited textfile

Post by Quart »

Hi
I am new to textpad but hope you can help me.
I have a weatherstation and the software writes a textfile each 3 minutes.
http://fiffi.gotdns.com/clientraw.txt
I want a macro that opens the file at 6 am each day and check if the
value is lower then 2 degress.
I can put a schedule job in windows that runs a macro.
But I cant get macro to work.
All info in the text file is in one line.
The text file is tab delimited.
The temperature is in the 5 column.
Can anybody give some help ? :wink:
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Bob Hansen
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Post by Bob Hansen »

I would suggest that you look at another program to work with TextPad to perform your tasks.

Although you could use Windows Scheduler to schedule the task, you cannot have TextPad run a macro immediately on opening.

I use Macro Scheduler daily to do the scheduling, to open TextPad, to run TextPad macros, close the program, and continue with other tasks.

There are other similar products out there, but I have found that Macro Scheduler and TextPad are the two best utilities I have. I am just an end user for both products, have no association with either of them.

Product info available here: http://www.mjtnet.com/macro-scheduler-a ... ftware.htm
Hope this was helpful.............good luck,
Bob
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