Re: Reading a file into a "sequence"
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 18, 2004
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John F Dutcher wrote: > > You guys do a heck of a job... > The sub routine is a nice piece of work.... > This is returned in "ex.err" when called with the input below & > the code lines below: > > "sequence lengths are not the same (4 != 0)" > > This seems to refer to line (12) of "CSV_to_Sequence(object pText)" > > > }}} <eucode> > sequence Fields > > fn=open("tml_extract.txt","r") > if fn < 1 then > puts(1, "Unable to open the disk file\n") > abort(fn) > else > while 1 do > Fields = CSV_to_Sequence( gets(fn)) > if Fields = {} then exit > else ..... > -- etc. etc. > </eucode> {{{ > > The first record in "tml_extract.txt" is: > (and does seem to contain (4) "fields") > > "%HDR","EXTRACT","11/17/2004 02:23:10 AM","UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL > CENTER" This is one of those areas that Euphoria is a very unintuitive. With the 'IF' statement, you can only use the relationship operators (= != < > ...) with atoms and never with sequences. What happens is that when you do if Seq = A then the phrase 'Seq = A' actually creates a new (temporary) sequence containing ones and zeros, and passes that temporary sequence to the IF, but an IF statement must have the form ... if <atom-expression> then ... I know, it is pretty stupid, and everyone trips over this at least once, but that's what RDS believes is a good thing to do. Anyhow, to fix your problem do either this ... if length(Fields) = 0 then exit end if (*don't forget the 'end if') or if equal(Fields, {}) then exit end if (*don't forget the 'end if') -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia