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Re: Need Help to make Orac Linux-compatible

• Posted by Mike <vulcan at win.c??nz> Nov 06, 2007
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Mike wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a Linux guru willing to make Orac Linux-compatible? I've never used
> > Linux before so I don't think I'd be able to do a good job on my own ..
> > 
> > The 2 main areas are how to treat path characters and reading/writing lines
> > of text.
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated.
> 
> These two areas are pretty straightforward.  For path characters, you have
> two options:
> 
>  1.  Always use '/' since both Windows and Linux support them
>  2.  Use '/' on Linux and '\\' on Windows.  Most programs define a constant
>      or variable named slash or SLASH and assigned based upon the results
>      of platform().
> 
> To deal with line endings, always assume that you may have both "\r\n" at
> the end of a line.  I often define a function such as:
> }}}
<eucode>
> global function chomp( sequence line )
>     while length( line ) and find( line[$], "\n\r" ) do
>         line = line[1..$-1]
>     end while
>     return line
> end function
> 
> procedure read_a_file( sequence file_name )
>     integer fn
>     object in
>     fn = open( file_name, "r" )
>     in = gets( file_name )
>     while sequence( in ) do
>         in = chomp( in )
>         -- ... do stuff with the line
>         in = gets( fn )
>     end while
> end procedure
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> Matt

Thanks for the info. I feel better about maybe trying to do this myself.

Mike