I am really very grateful for your effort in writing a program to sort abc files, but I have to admit I had never heard of PERL I am currently trying to install it on my machine & then will need to brush up on my DOS commands - then I will try it & report back ! However, I will admit I am struggling a bit, but I will persevere
I was hoping the functionality could be added to one of the programs like abcmus or abc2win in the future, since although you have kindly offered to sort a file for me (as did Phil Taylor), I really would like to be able to re-sort the file periodically, after merging in new tunes etc, so don't want to keep troubling you to sort it for me Thank again for all your efforts to date Derek bone -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 September 2003 17:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [abcusers] Sorting abc files Hi Derek, I don't know of anything that can do what you want, so I wrote something (yes, I'm a geek). It's a short perl script that takes as input your ABC file, and creates a new file myfile.abc.new which has the tunes sorted by title. I uploaded the script to my webspace at http://members.cox.net/chrismyers/sort_abc.pl so you can download it from there. Hopefully you have perl installed on your machine (if not, you should), and you know how to run stuff from a Command Prompt (or DOS shell, whatever you want to call it). Let me know if this works (or doesn't) for you. I tried making it a CGI script, but was having trouble, so we can start from here. I suppose I'll eventually figure it out, but I wanted to be the first with a solution (I'm weird like that). Good luck! -Chris Christopher Myers em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: chrismyers001 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/03 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/03 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
