Commandline output to Windows Program

try this

StreamReader lo_reader = new StreamReader(@#FILE#);
lo_reader.open();
while(!lo_reader.EndOfStream)
{
string ls_input = lo_reader.ReadLine();
      if(ls_input.Contains("totalrx")
      {
            ls_input = ls_input.Replace("totalrx;");
            textbox1.Text = ls_input
      }
}
lo_reader.close();

if you want to display the totalrx before it just remove the replace line. and remember to include the
#include System.IO;
at the top.

have done it quite quickly so you'll have to substitue your names in and beware of caps I might have missed.

Is this code reading text from a file?

so far I have this which captures everything and sticks it into a textbox.  I don't know how to display totalrx in the textbox alone?

      protected virtual void OnButton2Clicked (object sender, System.EventArgs e)
      {
            Process p = new Process();
            
            p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            p.StartInfo.FileName = "the commandline program to run goes here";
            p.Start();
            string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
            p.WaitForExit();
            
            entry1.Text = output";
      }

Hi narmi2;

The meaning of the Regex pattern, "(?i)totalrx;(.*?)\r", is as follows:

1. (?i) - Tells Regex that the pattern that follows should be evaluated with case insensitive matching.
2. totalrx; - Look for this sequence of characters in the string.
3. (.*?)  - Group the next sequence of characters until the first character after the end group, ).
4. \r - This is a return character and tells to group to stop grouping, in this case.

In this command, Regex.Match(output, @"(?i)totalrx;(.*?)\r").Groups[1].Value;, the Groups[1] tells Regex to return Group 1 the only group in this pattern and Value returns the string of the group.

Fernando

For some reason the regex is not returning anything?

I tried this, but it's output was blank:

Console.WriteLine (Regex.Match(output, @"(?i)totalrx;(.*?)\r").Groups[1].Value);

If I do the following, it displays text like the text I posted in the original post:

Console.WriteLine (output);

Please post your code. I have tested this solution before posting.

Here's the code:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
namespace test_console
{
	class MainClass
	{
		public static void Main(string[] args)
		{
                 ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo ();
                 psi.FileName = "command to execute goes here";
                 psi.Arguments = "optional argument goes here";
                 psi.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
                 psi.UseShellExecute = false;
 
                 Process p =  Process.Start (psi);
                 string ret = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd ();
 
                 p.WaitForExit ();
                 Console.WriteLine (Regex.Match(output, @"(?i)totalrx;(.*?)\r").Groups[1].Value);
		}
	}
}

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Please ignore the copy/past error, the line:
Console.WriteLine (Regex.Match(output, @"(?i)totalrx;(.*?)\r").Groups[1].Value);

Should have been:
Console.WriteLine (Regex.Match(ret, @"(?i)totalrx;(.*?)\r").Groups[1].Value);

Figured it out.  I am coding for Linux so instead of /r I hade to use /n
Thanks for all the help.

Yes you are correct files created on Unix type machine do use different line terminators.

Not a problem, glad I was able to help. ;=)