Rob,
I was reading the help available on my VM/CMS with "pipe ahelp ...".
For example :
"pipe ahelp <" mentions : Placement: "<" must be a first stage.
"pipe ahelp >" mentions : Placement: ">" must not be a first stage.
Whereas "pipe ahelp diskrand" doesn't say anything about a "Placement".
Which I could interpret (or not ?) in "diskrand does NOT have to be the
first stage, unlike <".
For the "CMS Pipelines Author Edition", do you mean
http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/ ?
And for example, the help file of diskrand being
http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/bhelp/ACH0145.html ?
John,
Sorry, my "old" pipeline version (1.0110) doesn't know your "pick +
from" ;-)
(and it didn't like either the "substr" stage of Rob ^^)
I'll have to install locally the latest pipeline module to run your code.
Thanks to you both for your help.
Michaël
But I would never have thought of your second solution (I thought "diskrand"
had to be the first stage in a pipeline; In fact, I never really noticed the
"Placement" note in the stages' help; The placements are not as obvious as I
thought they were ...).
I'm not sure what the "placement" note is that you refer to. Worried
that you might be using the CMS manual, I looked there but did not see
it either (those "Usage Notes" seem to tell more about the person who
wrote the book than about the product). Just in case, if you have not
done so yet: get yourself for x-mas a copy of CMS Pipelines Author
Edition (from the CMS Pipelines home page).
Yes, it's normal to find new things each time you go through the book
or help files. The amazing thing is that often they turn out to be
where you expected them... I never noticed the "count" option on
"pick" that The Piper suggested. While that approach to use "pick"
for generating the series 1, 1001, 2001 ... is a bit silly, I'm sure I
will find ways to use it ;-)
Rob
