That's excellent! Each person who responded came up with their own way of accomplishing this... AppleScript, command line script, and Services menu. Pretty cool. I tried the Perl script method and can confirm that it works. I assigned it a keystroke, and I'm in business.
Thanks a lot!! Scott On 10/17/06 1:06 PM, Adrian Howard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 17 Oct 2006, at 17:38, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for an easy way to total a column of numbers in a >> fragment of a >> large text file. Normally I copy the text file into BBEdit, use >> option-select to select just the column of numbers, and then I >> paste them >> into Excel where I type in a formula to sum everything up. >> >> Does anyone know of a way that I could possibly sum the numbers >> right within >> BBEdit, after selecting the column? Would this be easy to do with >> AppleScript? > > I have this little perl snippet > > --- > #! /usr/bin/perl > use List::Util qw( sum ); > print sum( <> ); > ---- > > as a Unix filter which I think does what you want. Option-select the > numbers then run the filter should get you the sum. > > Adrian -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
