1. Tab Delimited
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I've made a simple library for manipulating tab-delimited records.
It's very useful for manipulating text files before you import them into
another database program, like access or something.
I made it for work, cause this one file had a date format that access didn't
recognise, so it was used to read in, change, and write back about 450
thousand records. :)
I know that there is a proper database.e, and a miriad of other solutions to
data manipulation, but given their complexity, this was a much more
appropriate solution.
Can someone comment on the usefullness of this lib?
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2. Re: Tab Delimited
On 30 Jul 2002, at 13:53, mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote:
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> I've made a simple library for manipulating tab-delimited records.
>
> It's very useful for manipulating text files before you import them into
> another database program, like access or something.
>
> I made it for work, cause this one file had a date format that access didn't
> recognise, so it was used to read in, change, and write back about 450
> thousand
> records. :)
>
> I know that there is a proper database.e, and a miriad of other solutions to
> data manipulation, but given their complexity, this was a much more
> appropriate
> solution.
>
> Can someone comment on the usefullness of this lib?
strtok was made for this work.
Kat
3. Re: Tab Delimited
>strtok was made for this work.
Oh. ok. I'm like the second inventor of the wheel.
:P
Oh well, it serves well enough for me, and *I* understand it, so that's the
important bit.
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4. Re: Tab Delimited
On 30 Jul 2002, at 21:50, mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote:
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> >strtok was made for this work.
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> Oh. ok. I'm like the second inventor of the wheel.
>
> :P
>
> Oh well, it serves well enough for me, and *I* understand it, so that's the
> important bit.
No problem, you don't haveto use strtok, and the source code is out there for
you. But there is a lot of new work in it since first released two years ago,
and it should be able to do anything you want.
functions:
parse
deparse
instok
istok
remtok
deltok
findtok
gettok
addtok
puttok / changetok
reptok / repltok
matchtok
matchntok
wildtok
wildntok
sorttok
sortntok
and these come in non-case-sensitive versions too, and most can use
sequences (or nested sequences even) in the parameters. For your use, the
sort functions might be handy too, trick.
Kat
