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BanMe · Last edited by BanMe on Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:28 pm; edited 2 times in total

ok people today im going to do a tutorial in autoit3(cause i like the new features and its easy to code in)..In This tutorial im going to show you how to interpret data into code..by anylzing the data and looking for logical patterns in the data and then applying those logical patterns to code..this has nothing to do with "hacking games" just simple data analysis..

please visit this website in order to obtain the entire sample of the data that we will be anaylzing throughout this tutorial..

http://www.drf.com/misc/charts/SAR20060727.chart

please also visit this website as well as it describes each structure's layout(note: layout does not apply to the general order in which the structures appear in the data)..

http://www.drf.com/misc/charts/drfchartfields.pdf

so as we look at the data it looks to be a complete jumble but upon further inspection we start to see certain things that help in the break down of data into useable parts..

DataSample1

here is the description of the first Structure (easily relatable to code)

so looking at this we see it needs 7 elements 6 string types and 1 integer type..and that all structures begin with RecordType Field.. so with this info we would build someting similiar to this..

Spawnfestis · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:06 am Post subject:

Apart from AutoIT3 not being a programming langauge, the tutorial itself seems ok.
I don't see why anyone would want to touch AutoIT for other features than the easy botting, really. It's just an automating language, look at the name of it.
It's not fast, it's not better, it's definately not more logical than any programming language of which you could say take just as long to learn the basics of.

Eh, good anyway. Crying or Very sad

BanMe · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:24 am Post subject:

thank you for your kind words and your opinions Very Happy

I did not do any planning for this tutorial and actually it is the result of a job ive been requested to do.. analyzing horse race data to find the choice picks from the data. so this tutorial was written on the fly.. I didnt think autoit3 was capable of something like this, but actually the release version now includes a whole host of automation features from internet explorer automation to excel automation..all with increasing detail in how to use them..I feel that using Autoit3 for the grunt work(data reaping/GUI) and a C++ dll to do the finer calculations with the data is easy way to get a task done..(quickest way to definable results)

I plan our continuing this tutorial on through that phase of development as well as onto the complete C++ rework of the code..hopefully showing code relationships in definable terms so that others may not only convert Auoit3 to C++ but from any coding/scripting language to ones own language of choice..

regards BanMe

SXGuy · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject:

theres already a c++ / Autoit converter.

BanMe · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:

the point would be "not" to have to use a converter..
I am unable to find this supposed converter with google or dogpile..

regards BanME

SXGuy · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:28 am Post subject:

thats because its in the autoit forums, you wont find it on google.

LolSalad · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:58 am Post subject:

BanMe · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject:

maybe you could be so nice as to provide a link.. because I am completly unable to find this..all i can find is the autoit3 dev's saying that it would be almost impossible..

SXGuy · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject:

Im sorry i cant provide a link, i saw the thread about a year ago, while researching autoit functions, havent had the need to use it either.

Maybe they removed it, or maybe it ended up being a load of bollox i dont know, i just remember a thread about someone who wrote a program to convert it all from c++ to Autoit.

BanMe · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject:

thank you for the reply :]

I read every thread that had convert autoit to C++, or C++ to autoit in it.. I couldn't find anything like a convertor

smartz993 · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:23 pm Post subject:

Maybe he got confused with this:

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/general-programs/73637-use-autoit-c-programs.html

BanMe

maybe but it doesn't matter :]

on with the last part of the autoit tutorial..after analzing the code and actually running it it runs into problems with blank Fields and with structure elements that are text separated by commas' in a long string in in some structures.. so we cannot just split the string up by each space in the string as we did above.

so back to the data we go..

lets break down what we see..

first we see a StartQuote then Charecter(s) then a EndQuote and finally a comma.. we also know there is a space after each structure..
So If we take this data as a string and Split each field by the comma we end up with a array with data that looks like this:

for Strings with commas in them
like "Came up gamely,Tired,Came again and again"
break down into structures that look like this (usually but not all the time..)

so on and so forth with each element still containing Start and/or End Quotes.

so we can use this constant to our advantage by splitting the string By the Quote we end up with arrays that look like this:

Next Element looks like this:

and also element comma strings end up looking like this

so there are a few benefits to doing it this way. you end up with a array like this when each structure ends in a space and includes the RecordType in the string..

and also this method has another benefit. it provides a mostly predictable string pattern that one can use to reform the string and check for most often used endpoint for a comma separated string element and then add that string to the structure..

Here is the code representing this new analysis of the data
pls forgive me some debugging code is still in there.. but it is far more workable then the previous version and is going to be the last autoit version i produce as a prototype framework for the parser.. :]