Text conversion restrictions
When converting text into lotto lines, (either by opening a text file or using pasted text from the clipboard) each set of numbers should exist on a new line (with no blank lines separating them). Each number may be either written with leading zeros, i.e. 05 instead of 5. The lines must of course be legal lines. Each number should be separated. The separators may be any of the following characters.
- A space.
- A tab (This is how lines are extracted from Excel).
- A comma ','
- A dash '-'.
- A forward slash '/'.
- A back slash '\'.
- Parenthesis '(' or ')'.
You may separate each number with multiple spacing characters, and you may also mix them. So you may have a space, followed by a dash, followed by a second space. The lines may also have characters that follow the line numbers. This is why the gamble reports now list the played lines in the form;
10 11 12 13 15 16 (Line 1)
instead of
Line 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
When you paste or load text files, you may have a single line at the end of the list with no characters. This lets you insert a 'Return' at the end of the file in your list. More than one return will cause the load or paste to fail.
Most forms of text representation for lines will be covered by these rules. All of the following lines will convert.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6
- 1,2\3/4-5(6)
- 1 --- 2 --- ,,,3 4 \ 5 6 Tony's line
- 1,2,3,4,5,6-Gary's line
- 1 2 3 4 5 6(Mike's line)
The following lines will fail,
- 1,2,3,4,5,6Mary's line (No separating character between the 6 and the M).
- 010203040506 (No separators between numbers)
- Line 1 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 (The numbers must be at the start of the line.)