DRAW Reference Manual
2D Drafting : Text Strings : Displaying Text from a File on the Drawing
Displaying Text from a File on the Drawing
The contents of a text file may be read in and placed on a drawing using Programmable Macro Language (PML) file handling facilities. For example (when at a NOTE):
ALIG TB JUST L
OPENFILE /filename READ !TOKEN
READFILE $!TOKEN !RECORD
NEW TEXP AT @ BTEX ’$!RECORD’
VAR !EXTENT EXTENT BTEX
The EXTENT query (together with PML array and string-handling commands) may be used to calculate the position of the next line of text.
Successive READFILE and TEXP commands may be used until the file is exhausted. The file may then be closed using:
CLOSEFILE $!TOKEN
Note that any ‘$’ characters in the file should be doubled.
PML is detailed in the Software Customisation Guide.
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