Kixtart is the best script languange so far and I simply like it.. althought I am not such expert as some of you are (I like asembler) I was wondering...
Does Kixtart have something like separator (like awk).
Example: I have a csv file and I want to jump on 3rd value in this file without the need to proces every value in order to compare it to comma.

More concrete: I want to process a dump of event viewer log files..

btw sorry for my english

P.S. Is Kixtart fast enought to do this in realtime?

If your betting on using KiXtart 2001 (RC3) - you can use the new SPLIT() function to automatically parse-out a string into array elements ... this example reads a CSV file and displays the third comma-delimited field :

code:

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break on

$logfile = "D:\TEST.DAT" <-- change this

if open(1,$logfile,2) = 0
 $line = readline(1)
 while @error = 0
  $array = split($line,",")
  ?"Third element = " $array[2]
  $line = readline(1)
 loop
 $ = close(1)
endif

exit 1

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Carefull - the SPLIT function will have you rolling snake-eyes if your CSV file contains unexpected lines - might have to make this code more robust ...

-Shawn

code:

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break on
$logfile = "D:\TEST.DAT" <-- change this
if open(1,$logfile,2) = 0
 $line = readline(1)
 while @error = 0
  $array = split($line,",")
  if ubound($array) < 2
    ;don't pull the array info! kix will crash!
  else
    ?"Third element = " $array[2]
  endif
  $line = readline(1)
 loop
 $ = close(1)
endif
exit 1

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Welcome to the board.

The new release with the split function makes your life very easy,
but reading information from a file isn't very fast. be aware of that.
The kixtart 4.00 release is must faster then previous releases.
greetings.

You are GREAT!

Thank you once more..