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by dondada
Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Using Active Window
Replies: 1
Views: 7904

Using Active Window

Is there a way to have Robotask recoginize that a program is already running and then pass command line parameters/commands to it. I don't want it to open a new occurance of an already running program? I tried the window commands but they weren't working. I'm really trying to run a batch program uti...
by dondada
Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: csv file
Replies: 1
Views: 8593

csv file

I need a task that will "look" at a csv file and save each row of data to a separate file. I the original file has 5 rows then I should end up with 5 files. If the original file has 8 rows then I need 8 files. Each file must contain just one row of data. How do I do that? Thanks for the he...
by dondada
Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Reading the text
Replies: 7
Views: 22646

Reading the text

I tried the task you wrote and it did not work despite all the modifications that I could think of trying! I emailed you the actual csv file that I am working with. Please help me make it work. Thanks!
by dondada
Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Reading the text
Replies: 7
Views: 22646

Reading the text

Could you please write a task that shows how. Thanks!
by dondada
Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:26 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Reading the text
Replies: 7
Views: 22646

Reading the text

How do I save the text in the 2nd line 5th column of a .csv file to a variable and then write the variable to a different text file? I can do everything except getting the value on the 2nd line 5th column.
Please help! Thanks 
 
by dondada
Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Text files reading 2nd line
Replies: 1
Views: 19841

Text files reading 2nd line

I wrote a task to read the 2nd line of every file in a folder and append the 2nd line to a different file. It needs to do this for every file in the folder. The problem is it only does it for the 1st two files. Please Help me fix the problem. Thanks! Here is the task ;********************** ;* RoboT...
by dondada
Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rename Folders
Replies: 1
Views: 9469

Rename Folders

I have 2 tasks that I need help with: 1) How do I get a list of all folders in a directory. 2)Use that list(step 1 above) to then rename the folders. I have a separate list of the new folder names. I want to be able to match and rename a specific old folder name to a specific new folder name from th...
by dondada
Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:53 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rename Files
Replies: 3
Views: 12660

Rename Files

Yes, please write a task that uses the "search for" action and then generates a filename to rename and save the found file(s). Thanks!
by dondada
Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rename Files
Replies: 3
Views: 12660

Rename Files

All I'm trying to do is rename several existing files (which could number in the hundreds) to my selected filenames. I generate the files to rename using "Search for Files" and writing it to a text file. But for some reason it isn't working. See my task below with just 2 files for brevity....
by dondada
Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Close windows isn’t working
Replies: 1
Views: 8192

Close windows isn’t working

This task doesn't work. I just wanted to close a Notepad window. ;********************** ;* RoboTask Task file * ;* Do not edit!       * ;**********************   [Root] ActionAfterRun=INTEGER|0 Actions=FOLDER Automat=INTEGER|-1 CatID=INTEGER|209098037 ContinueOnError=INTEGER|0 ExternalName=STRING|&...