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Subject: Re: O/T - Programming assistance

Author: Normand M. Blais

Date: 12:25:26 08/10/04

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On August 10, 2004 at 14:57:38, Ray Banks wrote:

>My limited programming knowledge is so old that this will take me hours, but I
>know some of you here could do it in 5 mins.
>
>I need to prompt for a file to read in, (a comma delimited text file), calculate
>an additional column, and prompt to write back to a new file. I know it is
>probably a matter of reading the file into an array, calculating and adding the
>extra column with a do-loop, then outpiutting it, but I've forgotten how. I also
>don't have any programming languages currently installed.
>
>The input file is like this:
>
>1,"35000/001",1/1/2002,06:00:00
>2,"35000/001",5/2/2003,07:00:00
>3,"35000/001",6/1/2004,07:00:00
>4,"35000/002",3/9/1999,05:32:00
>5,"35000/002",5/4/2004,04:34:00
>6,"35000/003",4/1/2003,07:12:00
>7,"35000/004",5/5/2001,12:34:00
>8,"35000/004",3/2/2002,17:30:00
>9,"35000/005",9/7/2004,12:32:00
>
>and the output file would be
>
>1,"35000/001",1/1/2002,06:00:00,1
>2,"35000/001",5/2/2003,07:00:00,2
>3,"35000/001",6/1/2004,07:00:00,3
>4,"35000/002",3/9/1999,05:32:00,1
>5,"35000/002",5/4/2004,04:34:00,2
>6,"35000/003",4/1/2003,07:12:00,1
>7,"35000/004",5/5/2001,12:34:00,1
>8,"35000/004",3/2/2002,17:30:00,2
>9,"35000/005",9/7/2004,12:32:00,1
>
>The new last column is basically a counter, which is re-set upon a changed value
>in the second column.
>
>I know it is asking a lot, but I'd be really grateful if someone could give me
>some assistance on this
>
>many thanks
>Ray

Hi Ray,

The easiest way is to use a spreadsheet program like "Excel".

Regards,

Normand




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