How would I type up a code that searches through a text file from a given directory. I want the search word to be "password123" and if it contains that, then it will proceed onto the next step, if not it will give an error message. ...
Say you have a text file - what's the fastest and/or most memory efficient way to determine the number of lines of text in that file? Is it simply a matter of scanning through it character by character and looking for newline characters? ...
Hi I have a stringlist with 10 000 entires. I have a shuffle routine, but accessing any of the items is taking a lot of time. Going thtought all 10k items takes a huge amount of time. I want to save it do disk and then do a shuffle on the file using another method. Any suggestions? Any source code welcome, Delphi preferable. Thanks ...
I need to append text repeatedly to an existing file in Java. How do I do that? ...
Problem: I've a huge raw text file (assume of 3gig), I need to go through each word in the file and find out that a word appears how many times in the file. My Proposed Solution: Split the huge file into multiple files and each splitted file will have words in a sorted manner. For example, all the words starting with "a" will be stored ...
I have a file full of ascii data. How would I append a string to the first line of the file? I cannot find that sort of functionality using fopen (it seems to only append at the end and nothing else.) ...
I am trying to loop through a directory of text files and combine them into one document. This works great, but the text files contain code snippets, and all of my formatting is getting collapsed to the left. All leading whitespace on a line is stripped. #!/bin/sh OUTPUT="../best_practices.textile" FILES="../best-practices/*.textile" fo...
hi, what's the the most efficient way to find text files in different directories and then run regex to those found files. I will run php/scripts locally. Let's say I have D:\Script\ where i want to run my script from and D:\Script\folder_01, D:\Script\folder_02, etc. where i want that script to look the files from. Those folder names a...
I've had these functions in my .emacs.el file for years: (defun dos2unix () "Convert a DOS formatted text buffer to UNIX format" (interactive) (set-buffer-file-coding-system 'undecided-unix nil)) (defun unix2dos () "Convert a UNIX formatted text buffer to DOS format" (interactive) (set-buffer-file-coding-system 'undecided-d...
Dear Overflowns: I have an executable whose input is contained in an ASCII file with format: $ GENERAL INPUTS $ PARAM1 = 123.456 PARAM2=456,789,101112 PARAM3(1)=123,456,789 PARAM4 = 1234,5678,91011E2 PARAM5(1,2)='STRING','STRING2' $ NEW INSTANCE NEW(1)=.TRUE. PAR1=123 [More data here] $ NEW INSTANCE NEW(2)=.TRUE. [etcetera] In ...
I have an application that writes traces with a timestamp when certain items are clicked or accessed. I need to write these to a text log file so that they can be accessed remotely.. The device the app runs on doesn't have a web server and doesn't run the flash debug player, os is xp. How can I send these traces to a text file? I noticed...
Hey all, I have a very large text file and all I need to do is remove one single line from the top of the file. Ideally, it would be done in PHP, but any unix command would work fine. I'm thinking I can just stream through the beginning of the file till I reach \n, but I'm not sure how I do that. Thanks, Matt Mueller ...
I would like to store values in a text file as comma or tab seperated values (it doesn't matter). I am looking for a reusable library that can manipulate this data in this text file, as if it were a sql table. I need select * from... and delete from where ID = ...... (ID will be the first column in the text file). Is there some cod...
I have this text file: Dec 04 20:15 Naruto 123 Dec 04 17:42 Naruto 98 Dec 04 16:19 D Gray Man 001 Dec 04 16:05 Bleach 128 Dec 04 12:13 50 x 50 44 I need to output the contents into a table with the Date and Time in its own column and the Tile and Chapter in another. Also.. I need to replace the Title and Chapter with a link that must...
I have asked a related question in the past and I know how to read the file thanks to the help of the experts here. Now I have a new problem. I first read the data from the file like so: fid = fopen('D:\file.txt', 'rt'); a = textscan(fid, '%s %f %f %f %f %f %f', ... 'Delimiter',',', 'CollectOutput',1, 'HeaderLines',1); fclo...
I am trying to create one long string from a text file. This is the code that I currently have. I do not really understand the encoding and I tried to research but found nothing. This is the line of code that I have: NSString* data = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:@"12thnew.txt" encoding: error:NULL]; When I entered the enco...
I am saving all my notes in a log file. Each line is a note, suffixed by tags, and prefixed by a date and time marker, which currently looks like this: [12.20.09:22.22] ([date:time]. I am planning to have this a long-living format. Notes will be logged willy-nilly with this format 20-30 times a day for years to come. I foresee numerou...
Okay, I'm probably missing something really simple here, but I've been at this for over an hour now and getting nowhere. :( I have a C# project using Microsoft's Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. The Save dialog box appears as desired, but it never makes the file. Practially speaking, once the file is specified, I'd like the application...
How can I bind a WPF TextBlock to a text file? I want for the TextBlock to display the content of the file. ...
Hello all, I have a text file (its comma delimited with some fields wrapped around in double quotes) when I parse through it using this: if (($handle = fopen('C:\tester\fake.txt', "r")) !== FALSE) { while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, ",")) !== FALSE) { $num = count($data); //echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /><...