Alright, so I need a script that reads a specific line from a specific file and then parse it and output the parsed text onto the current chat window.

Say it reads line 255 from a text file
Then it removes a certain string from the line
and outputs it!

If it helps anyone, I already did this in mIRC Scripting

code:

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$read(C:\Program Files\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\config\saved.cfg, 255)

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code:

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alias ACServ {
  //say /connect $remove($remove($read(C:\Program Files\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\config\saved.cfg, 255), alias "serverinfo" [), ])
}

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Here are 2 untested options to get get you started.

js code:

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function ReadLineFromFile(sFile, nLine) {
    var f = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sFile, 1 /* ForReading */);
    while (--nLine > 0 && !f.AtEndOfStream) {
        fso.ReadLine();
    }
    var s = fso.ReadLine();
    f.Close();
    return s;
}

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js code:

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function ReadLineFromFile(sFile, nLine) {
    var f = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sFile, 1 /* ForReading */);
    var s = f.ReadAll();
    f.Close()
    var FileContents = s.split('\r\n');
    return FileConents(nLine-1);
}

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Sorry but how do I implement it ?

matty just provided you with two possible implementations of how you could read a single line from a file (what's in a function name?). Basically, you copy one of those functions in your script and call them:

js code:

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var line = ReadLineFromFile("C:\\Program Files\\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\\config\\saved.cfg", 255);
// line now contains the 255th line from saved.cfg

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1. In order to make your script do something when a chat message is sent by the current user, you'll need to create an OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage function. This function will be called whenever a message is sent, allowing you to modify it before it gets sent. Have a look at the scripting documentation on how to define this event in your script.
   
2. Inside this function, you'll want to check whether the message starts with your command "/acserv". There are a lot of cases which you need to take into account when parsing script commands, for example when there is more than one slash before a command, that command should be escaped and thus not parsed at all. Also, there are some limitations on which characters are allowed in the command name and the parameters. Luckily, CookieRevised wrote a regular expression which deals with all these cases.
   

   js code:

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   var m;
   if ( m = /^\/([^ \n\r\v\xA0\/][^ \n\r\v\xA0]*)[\s\xA0]?([\s\S]*)/.exec(sMessage) ) {
       var command = m[1].toLowerCase();
       var parameter = m[2];
       if ( command == 'acserv' ) {
           // do something and return a modified message
       }
   }
   return sMessage;

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   Source: CookieRevised's reply to Gettin data from "/" commands (small modifications by myself)
   
3. Inside the command parser check if ( command == 'acserv' ) { ... }, you place your actual code. That is, call ReadLineFromFile, remove something from the returned string and output it by returning it back to the event function. So you start off with the first code block in this post, then do some replace() on the string, such as:
   

   js code:

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   line = line.replace('alias "serverinfo [', '');
   line = line.replace(']', '');

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   and finally return line;.

js code:

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function ReadLineFromFile(sFile, nLine) {
    var f = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sFile, 1 /* ForReading */);
    var s = f.ReadAll();
    f.Close(); // added semicolon
    var FileContents = s.split(/\r?\n/); // matches both \r\n and \n
    return FileContents[nLine-1]; // fixed variable name and needs [ ] instead of ( ) since it's an array accessor.
}

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This is what I did.. But the command isn't recognized D:

code:

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function ReadLineFromFile(sFile, nLine) {
    var f = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sFile, 1 /* ForReading */);
    var s = f.ReadAll();
    f.Close()
    var FileContents = s.split('\r\n');
    return FileConents(nLine-1);
}

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage() {

var m;
if ( m = /^\/([^ \n\r\v\xA0\/][^ \n\r\v\xA0]*)[\s\xA0]?([\s\S]*)/.exec(sMessage) ) {
    var command = m[1].toLowerCase();
    var parameter = m[2];
    if ( command == 'acserv' ) {
    var line = ReadLineFromFile("C:\\Program Files\\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\\config\\saved.cfg", 255);
// line now contains the 255th line from saved.cfg

line = line.replace('alias "serverinfo [', '');
line = line.replace(']', '');
    }
}
return sMessage;
}

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I'm having problem using the event o_o

Well first you are doing it wrong. You need to use the OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage() function. Have a look at the official documents.

Also I made a mistake in my code and the last return line should use [] not ().

I find the official documents rather confusing it doesn't have examples and stuff so it's rather hard to figure out and I wont  say that I'm good in English either. It'd be a great help if someone would create the script for me

You need to include the parameters (ChatWnd and Message) for OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage().

jscript code:

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function ReadLineFromFile(sFile, nLine)
{
    var f = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sFile, 1 /* ForReading */);
    var s = f.ReadAll();
    f.Close()
    var FileContents = s.split('\r\n');
    return FileConents[nLine - 1];
}

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(oChatWnd, sMessage)
{
    var m;
    if (m = /^\/([^ \n\r\v\xA0\/][^ \n\r\v\xA0]*)[\s\xA0]?([\s\S]*)/.exec(sMessage))
    {
        var command = m[1].toLowerCase();
        var parameter = m[2];
        if (command == 'acserv')
        {
            var line = ReadLineFromFile("C:\\Program Files\\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\\config\\saved.cfg", 255);
            // line now contains the 255th line from saved.cfg
            line = line.replace('alias "serverinfo [', '');
            line = line.replace(']', '');
        }
    }
    return sMessage;
}

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It doesn't work!
"The command you entered was not recognized
if the message was not meant to be a command etc"

The highlighted line was forgotten.

jscript code:

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function ReadLineFromFile(sFile, nLine)
{
    var f = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sFile, 1 /* ForReading */);
    var s = f.ReadAll();
    f.Close()
    var FileContents = s.split('\r\n');
    return FileConents[nLine - 1];
}

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(oChatWnd, sMessage)
{
    var m;
    if (m = /^\/([^ \n\r\v\xA0\/][^ \n\r\v\xA0]*)[\s\xA0]?([\s\S]*)/.exec(sMessage))
    {
        var command = m[1].toLowerCase();
        var parameter = m[2];
        if (command == 'acserv')
        {
            var line = ReadLineFromFile("C:\\Program Files\\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\\config\\saved.cfg", 255);
            // line now contains the 255th line from saved.cfg
            line = line.replace('alias "serverinfo [', '');
            line = line.replace(']', '');
>>>            return line;<<<
        }
    }
    return sMessage;
}

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Nope. It's still not working

You guys are still using the bugged version of ReadLineFromFile(). On the last line, "FileContents" is misspelled, which I already mentioned in my previous post.

Another possible issue could be that the file you're trying to read is saved as Unicode. By default, OpenTextFile reads the file as ASCII so you need to pass in an extra parameter to override this behavior. Therefore, I added an extra parameter to the function which takes care of this. You could try to detect whether a file is saved as ASCII or Unicode, but that requires some Win32 trickery.

js code:

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function ReadLineFromFile(sFile, nLine, bUnicode) {
    var f = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(sFile, 1 /* ForReading */, false, (bUnicode ? -1 : 0));
    var s = f.ReadAll();
    f.Close();
    var FileContents = s.split(/\r?\n/);
    if(nLine > FileContents.length) return false; // implement some error handling here?
    return FileContents[nLine-1];
}

function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(oChatWnd, sMessage) {
    var m;
    if (m = /^\/([^ \n\r\v\xA0\/][^ \n\r\v\xA0]*)[\s\xA0]?([\s\S]*)/.exec(sMessage)) {
        var command = m[1].toLowerCase();
        var parameter = m[2];
        if (command == 'acserv') {
            var line = ReadLineFromFile("C:\\Program Files\\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\\config\\saved.cfg", 255, false); // change false to true if Unicode
            // line now contains the 255th line from saved.cfg
            line = line.replace('alias "serverinfo [', '');
            line = line.replace(']', '');
            return line;
        }
    }
    return sMessage;
}

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Not workin, man ._. I don't the MSGPlus can call the function at all.

/acserv

doesn't work.

What version of Windows Live Messenger do you have?

14.0.8117.416

Could you be a bit more specific about what exactly isn't working? When I run the last snippet I posted, it works flawlessly and I'm on the same version of Messenger as well (WLM 2009).

• Are you sure you saved your script files as Unicode (UCS-2 Little Endian)?
  
• Does the script debugger window report any errors?
  
• Have you tried debugging it by adding some Debug.Trace() lines to see what the value of the variables are at certain points?

There it is

I'm a pretty much noob at this debugging and stuff ._. what exactly do I need to do starting from the beginning?

Where are you pasting the snippets into? Are you using the built-in script editor of Plus! Live? If so, does it say "Script has successfully started" in the debugger when you click "Save All"?

What exactly is at line 255 of that saved.cfg file of yours? I see you were doing something with /connect for your mIRC script, perhaps it fails because the line read from the file starts with a slash?

With debugging, I mean trying to get an idea about what state the script is in at certain points during execution. For example, it might be interesting to place a Debug.Trace call just after the command parser, to check whether the command is correctly detected:

js code:

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// ...
if (command == 'acserv') {
    Debug.Trace('Found command /acserv');
    var line = ReadLineFromFile( //...

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js code:

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line = line.replace(']', '');
Debug.Trace('line = '+line);
return line;

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This is what the script says:

code:

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Function called: OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage
Function called: OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method (code: -2146827850)
       File: AssaultCube Read.js. Line: 18.
Function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage returned an error. Code: -2147352567

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Now that's a useful error message!

Line 18 is:

js code:

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line = line.replace('alias "serverinfo [', '');

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js code:

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    var FileContents = s.split("\n");

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js code:

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            var line = ReadLineFromFile("C:\\Program Files\\AssaultCube_v1.1.0.3\\config\\saved.cfg", 255, false);
            if( line === false ) return ''; // line not found, die silently
            line = line.replace('alias "serverinfo" [', '');
            // ...

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Thanks!
This works perfectly!

Thank you so much for the help, guys