Selecting some text

[gstola]

I need to select some characters. To do so, I wrote the following script, though it selects all the text in the file. Who know how to copy and paste only some bytes? Thank you

UltraEdit.selectClipboard(0);
UltraEdit.clearClipboard();
var i = 0;
UltraEdit.document[1].startSelect;
while (i < 3) {
UltraEdit.document[1].key("RIGHT ARROW");
i++;
}
UltraEdit.document[1].endSelect;
UltraEdit.document[1].copy();
UltraEdit.document[2].paste();

[Bego]

Errrrr, can you pls post a before and after example ?
No clue what you want to do....

[gstola]

lets say, if I have a file containing
0123456789
the script I posted creates a new file containing the same data
what I expected was to have only
012
since I wanted to select only the first three chars

[jorrasdk]

Edited after Mofis response below

An alternative to moving the cursor with RIGHT ARROW and StartSelect()/EndSelect() is this trick with find and regexp for "any 3 characters":

Code: Select all

UltraEdit.selectClipboard(0);
UltraEdit.clearClipboard();

UltraEdit.ueReOn(); /* Let's use UE's own regexp syntax */
UltraEdit.document[1].findReplace.regExp = true; /* we're going to find data using regular expressions */
UltraEdit.document[1].findReplace.find("???"); /* any 3 characters */

UltraEdit.document[1].copy();
UltraEdit.document[2].paste();


[Mofi]

RIGHT ARROW is enough when selection mode is activated. But gstola has not activated the selection mode, because he as not called the function to activate it. He has only evaluated, if the function startSelect exists.

UltraEdit.document[1].startSelect();

and

UltraEdit.document[1].endSelect();

would work.

gstola, read at forum topic UE Regular Expressions Problem the posts from Sam Hasler and me (Mofi) to understand the difference.