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Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 02 Jul 2015 01:47
by highend
(But the eval was necessary because feeding a decimal number with a dot or a comma made a difference)
True.

Btw, you can even make a new function out of it:

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function nthroot($num, $n=2) { return eval($num) ^ (1/$n); }
While $n must be a natural number (and it should be >= 2)

Custom range function

Posted: 02 Jul 2015 21:01
by mydarkpassenger
Just wrote a quick range function which will allow you to search through number ranges either positively or negatively by custom steps and put into a list. I put check in to protect against people passing with 0 steps (infinite).

Here's the function:

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    function range($from, $to, $step=1, $seperator="|") {
        if ($step == 0) {
            end 1==1, "Value for step [ 0 ] is not an allowed step for range function";
        }

        $count = $from;
        $list = "";
        if ($step > 0) {
            while($count <= $to) {
                $list = $list . "|" . $count;
                $count = $count + $step;
            }        
        } else {
            while($count >= $to) {
                $list = $list . "|" . $count;
                $count = $count + $step;
            }        
        }
        
        return formatlist($list, "e");
    }
 
here's how you can use it:

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                text range(1, 10) //Will create a text box with 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10 in it.

                //This will loop through the range and echo 1 then 3 then 5
        foreach($number, range(1, 5, 2)) {
            echo $number;
        }

                //This will loop through the range in reverse order and echo 10, 8, 6
        foreach($number, range(10, 5, -2)) {
            echo $number;
        }
[moved]

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 03 Jul 2015 07:49
by autocart
Would some mod please make this thread sticky. Thx!

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:21
by highend
Only Don can do this...

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 03 Jul 2015 15:01
by bdeshi
Hmm, I could move and rewrite the first two posts of this topic into a new topic "User-defined Functions Collection" for Don to make sticky. In fact I'd already tried that, but discovered I don't have glue. :kidding:

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 19 Jul 2015 20:30
by bdeshi
sendkeyescape(): Escapes a string for use in sendkeys.
So that a % becomes a % and not an Alt key, a {Home} becomes the string {Home} and not the Home key, and so on.

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FUNCTION sendkeyescape($str) {
/* Escape special sendkeys control characters in a string,
** to enable snedkey to type out the string as-is.
**  $str   the string to Escape */
  $str = regexreplace($str,'([\{\}\^\~\%\+])','{$1}');
  return $str;
}

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 19 Jul 2015 21:23
by Stef123
Sendkeys - that's my cue, this might be a keeper, gluey stuff :wink:
Not sure, though, how to benefit from it. What would the following look like when using your function?

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"Config Backup ..." ::sendkeys "^k{home}fff%n";

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 07:50
by bdeshi
that will type "^k{home}fff%n" exactly.

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 07:57
by Stef123
:idea: got it, string and escape being the keywords here, just like it says :oops:

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 10:08
by bdeshi
pad() : reciprocally pads two strings (or numbers) to the same length.
In other words, takes two strings, and pads the shorter one up to the same length as the other.
Note that this touches the input variables (passed by reference).

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FUNCTION pad(&$stringA, &$stringB, $padding, $side = 'L', $trim = 0){
  /* reciprocally pad two strings to the same length
  **  $stringA, $stringA   the two strings
  **  $padding   the padding char, must be one character
  **             if $stringA looks like a number, defaults to 0
  **             if $stringA looks like a string, defaults to ' '
  **  $side      which side to pad, 'L'eft or 'R'ight
  **  $trim      if 1, then ' ' or 0 are trimmed (NOT the padding char)
  */
  $padding = substr($padding, 0, 1); //take single padding char
  if ($padding == '') { if (regexmatches($stringA, '[^0-9\-\+\.]') == '') {$padding = 0; } else { $padding = ' '; } }
  if ($trim == 1) {$stringA = trim($stringA, '0 '); $stringB = trim($stringB, '0 ');}

  $lenA = strlen($stringA); $lenB = strlen($stringB); $diffA = 0; $diffB = 0; $diff = ($lenA - $lenB);
        if ($diff < 0) {$diffA = abs($diff);} elseif ($diff > 0) {$diffB = abs($diff);}
  $stringA = ($diffA == 0) ? ($stringA) : ((($side=='L')?strrepeat($padding, $diffA):'') . $stringA . (($side=='R')?strrepeat($padding, $diffA):'')); 
  $stringB = ($diffB == 0) ? ($stringB) : ((($side=='L')?strrepeat($padding, $diffB):'') . $stringB . (($side=='R')?strrepeat($padding, $diffB):''));
}
Examples
assuming the function is saved in <xyscripts>\inc\pad.xyi

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 $a = 'right'; $b = 'aligned';
 pad($a, $b);
 text $a.<crlf>.$b;
INCLUDE "inc\pad.xyi";
/*returns
  right
aligned
*/

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 21:27
by totmad1
these are three related functions

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 FUNCTION RemTokenPos($string, $index, $sep){
        // function to remove single token
	$len = gettoken($string, 'count', $sep);
        if ($index <= 0) || ($index > $len) { return $string;}
	$half1=gettoken( $string, $index-1, $sep, 1, 1);	
	$half2=gettoken($string, $index+1, $sep, 1, 2);
	if ($half1=="") { $string=$half2;}
	elseif ($half2=="") { $string=$half1;}
	else {$string="$half1$sep$half2";}
	return $string;}
	
	 
 FUNCTION RepTokenPos($string, $token, $index, $sep){
	// function to replace token
	$len = gettoken($string, 'count', $sep);
        if ($index <= 0) || ($index > $len) { return $string;}
	$half1=gettoken( $string, $index-1, $sep, 1, 1);	
	$half2=gettoken($string, $index+1, $sep, 1, 2);
	if ($half1=="") { $string="$token$sep$half2";}
	elseif ($half2=="") { $string="$half1$sep$token";}
	else {$string="$half1$sep$token$sep$half2";}
	return $string;}
	

 FUNCTION InsTokenPos($string, $token, $index, $sep){
	// function to insert token 
	// to insert @ beginning use 0 
	// else it will insert after the index
	// i.e.  $index=1 will insert @ 2
	$len = gettoken($string, 'count', $sep);
        if ($index < 0) || ($index > $len ) { return $string;}
	$half1=gettoken( $string, $index, $sep, 1, 1);	
	$half2=gettoken($string, $index+1, $sep, 1, 2);
	if ($half1=="") { $string="$token$sep$half2";}
	elseif ($half2=="") { $string="$half1$sep$token";}
	else {$string="$half1$sep$token$sep$half2";}
	return $string;}

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"examples "
	$a="19|20|22|22|21";
	$b=5;
	$nToken=30;
	$sep="|";
	$c=RemTokenPos($a, $b, $sep);
	text $c; //19|20|22|22
	$d=RepTokenPos($a, $nToken, $b, $sep);
	text $d; //19|20|22|22|30
	$d=InsTokenPos($a, $nToken, $b, $sep); 
	text $d; //19|20|22|22|21|30
have not fully tested but did see some shocking results :lol: :lol:

Edit
Thank you highend. what a basic mistake, should have tested properly

Edit
Thanks to Sammay and PeterH

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 23:07
by highend
All the three functions allow the usage of a separator but you'll return a hardcoded format ("|"- separated).
Either allow two separators (one for the $string and one for the $token) or at least rewrite it
to return the format of the source string (and not a hardcoded "|")...

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 10:40
by totmad1
highend wrote:All the three functions allow the usage of a separator but you'll return a hardcoded format ("|"- separated).
Either allow two separators (one for the $string and one for the $token) or at least rewrite it
to return the format of the source string (and not a hardcoded "|")...
Thanks again highend . It certainly got me thinking . First off realized that these functions didn't do the work I intended
to use them for. Secondly why would anyone need a different separator for the $token.
This is where it gets interesting ,what if you inserted a $token="(a,b,c)" into $a .
A BIG THANKS again not just for this but also for all your work/help.

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 11:00
by bdeshi
#1 - Concatenate variables with a '.' to avoid syntax warnings (Scripting > Syntax Checking).

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$half1.$sep.$token.$sep.$half2
#2 - RemveTokenPos -> RemTokenPos sounds better and consistent with the other two functions, no?

#3 - And perhaps consider adding a check like this to be consistent with builtin gettoken.

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//RemTokenPos, RepTokenPos
   $len = gettoken($string, 'count', $sep);
   if ($index <= 0) || ($index > $len) { return $string;}
//InsTokenPos
   $len = gettoken($string, 'count', $sep);
   if ($index < 0) || ($index > $len - 1) { return $string;}

Re: User Functions Exchange

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 11:45
by PeterH
SammaySarkar wrote:#1 - Concatenate variables with a '.' to avoid syntax warnings (Scripting > Syntax Checking).

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$half1.$sep.$token.$sep.$half2
Very right!

And in this very situation also

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"$half1$sep$token$sep$half2"
would be correct.
This would even allow you to add some constant characters to the resulting string without changing between quoted and non-quoted notation.
(But beware: in this case any character directly following a variable name must be non-alphabetic, i.e. not be allowed as part of a variable name, so that it isn't taken as part of that name. Further chars can be anything.

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"Prefix$half1$sep$token$sep$half2-Suffix"
as an example. Note the "-" in front of Suffix - it terminates the variable name "$half2"!)

So both notations can make sense.