On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:57:54 +0000 (UTC), N.J.BROWN@eee-fs4.bham.ac.uk
wrote:
>I need to read in a lot of data which I have stored in text files, I have
>read teach files, but this does not seem to discuss file manipulation of
>this kind. The data also needs to be sorted within the pop-11 programme as
>not all of it is relevant.
Did you mean sorted, or was that a typo for "stored"?
Further to David Young's answer, there seems to be very little help
about sorting and searching; the files seem to be written for people
who already know how to do it.
But it would be easy to provide pages of advice which was not of any
real use, because what you actually want to do is different.
Suffice it to say, I'm sure there are lots of people here who can
point you in the direction of an easy way to do what you want, if only
we knew a bit more about what you want to do!
For example, you could store each line from the file in the pop11
database (see TEACH *DATABASE), and then you could access the relevant
bits easily. But I can't say whether this is what you need without
more information.
Jonathan
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