Re: Anyone want to code a useful utility and get some EuBucks?

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I was thinking about doing something similar: to write it to database file
and to view it with edsgui because now it's hard to look at long sequences
in ex.err. But someone said they are truncated in ex.err so ... I don't
know.

----- Original Message -----
From: "SR.Williamson" <writeneu at hotmail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Anyone want to code a useful utility and get some EuBucks?


>
> This one would be guaranteed to get about 6 months worth of my EuBucks,
> provided you made it a win or dos file.
>
> A utility file that will parse ex.err, strip out EVERYTHING except the
> variables list in the main Eu file, the list that is right at the end.
>
> Then it should parse that part of the file, and ask you for each
> sequence whether it should be interpreted as a string or a number
> sequence. I'll give you another 2 months worth of EuBucks if it saves
> the answers in some sort of preference file so you don't have to enter
> the answer for sequences you've already decided each time you go through
> the ex.err file for a specific program.
>
> The output file should be the list of variables corrected into something
> more meaningful.
>
> IOW, you'll get something that looks like this.
>
> contents of myprog.err
> number = 4
> myAccounts = 17
> stuffILike = {cool stuff}
> kinds of cool things I have = {books, music, rocks, dead bugs}
> number of cool things = {books, {sci fi, romance, mags}, {12, 1, 37}}
>
> Hopefully that gives you an idea. I would dearly love to program this
> myself, but I'm afraid it's beyond my meager abilities.
>
> Anyone up for it?
>
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