Question

WSH Generate Files based on Simple Text file and delimited file

Asked by: MMDCisco

I have two files: one skeleton file that will be used as a base and the second containing the data to be inserted into the new file.  So file1 + information from file 2 = file 3.  File 1 contains 8 lines of text and two words that have to be replaced by the information in file 2.  File 2 contains two columns of data, Source & Destination.  There are over 200 lines in file 2, therefore there will be over 200 unique files N.

I'd like to create File N (and all subsequent ones) from file 1 and file 2 using WSH.

File 1:
Stuff Stuff Stuff
Stuff Stuff SOURCE  More stuff
More stuff DESTINATION More Stuff
More stuff

File 2:
Source1,Destination1
Source2,Destination2
Source3,Destination3

File N:
Stuff Stuff Stuff
Stuff Stuff SOURCE1  More stuff
More stuff DESTINATION1 More Stuff
More stuff

File N+1:
Stuff Stuff Stuff
Stuff Stuff SOURCE2  More stuff
More stuff DESTINATION2 More Stuff
More stuff

If possible, I'd like to make File N actually be named the Source variable.txt, i.e. source1.txt, source2.txt . . . source200.txt.

Lemme know your thoughts.

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2009-11-02 at 10:50:45ID24864747
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Comma Delimited

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Text FIle Generation

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Windows Batch Scripting

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Answers

 

by: JeffPartonPosted on 2009-11-02 at 13:01:04ID: 25723673

Ok, I am sorry but this is vague.

File1: Is it straight text with no carriage returns in it?  Is it 8 records? Does it actually have the word "SOURCE" and "DESTINATION" in the text?  

File2: Is each line in File2 a record separated by a "," as you seem to have it in your question?  So basically 2 fields in the same row?

you show carriage returns in your File N, File 1, File 2  What dicates when you want the line to break?

Can you attach an example of File 1, and an example of File 2 that has the same formatting?

File1 does it contain the "stuff" for File N+1 or does this come from a "different" File1?  What creates the separatioin in File1 that can be found to know what belongs to File N or File N+1?

Files can be created this way, but a lot more information needs to be had.  Examples of File1 and File2 would be of GREAT benefit.

 

by: spinzr0Posted on 2009-11-02 at 13:05:15ID: 25723717

This should do it, let me know if you need any more logic added.

sFile1 = "file1.txt"
sFile2 = "file2.txt"
 
Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
Set oMainFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(sFile1, 1, True)
sTemplateFile = oMainFile.ReadAll
Set oMainFile = Nothing
 
Set oInputFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(sFile2, 1, True)
Do While Not oInputFile.AtEndOfStream
    sTemp = oInputFile.ReadLine
    aTemp = Split(sTemp, ",")
    Set oOutputFile = oFS.CreateTextFile(aTemp(0) & ".txt", True)
    sTempFile = sTemplateFile
    oOutputFile.Write Replace(Replace(sTempFile, "SOURCE", aTemp(0)), "DESTINATION", aTemp(1))
    Set oOutputFile = Nothing
Loop
 
Set oFS = Nothing

                                              
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by: JeffPartonPosted on 2009-11-02 at 13:14:10ID: 25723801

Ahh, now I understand the question.  Ignore my post.  @spinzru0 script will do it quite well.

 

by: MMDCiscoPosted on 2009-11-02 at 13:25:02ID: 25723912

thank you for the rapid responses.  My pda web browser is bad so I cannot eval properly.  I can modify file 1 to have the words source and destination in it.  File 1 is a standard set of instructions and file n and  n+1 will only differ with the contents of file 2: rows of data: sourceN,destinationN EOL

thx all

 

by: spinzr0Posted on 2009-11-02 at 13:26:49ID: 25723927

Yeah, I generated my code based on that assumption.  Just try what I've provided and if you have any issues or questions, let me know.

 

by: MMDCiscoPosted on 2009-11-02 at 15:02:48ID: 25724696

Spinzr0:

Perfect!  Thank you.

 

by: MMDCiscoPosted on 2009-11-02 at 15:03:40ID: 31649019

This solves a few problems that I have and is very straightforward.  Excellent.

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