Hello, Im gonna check what Quencey Morris, suggested, Im gonna see how
to stop just before the line break, and analyze the data I gather, I
think NSScanner provides me a quick way to scan the file lines, its
huge, so checking line by line it will take longer.
When reading the documentation I read that by default NSScanner sips
blanks and line breaks, so I will see how to change that behavior,.
If I have no success in doing so I will be posting again.
Thanks a lot for the help
Gustavo
On 4.4.2009, at 13:32, Kirk Kerekes wrote:
It looks like you have tabular data to deal with, like punch cards.
That means that you can assume a fixed character position for the
beginning of each column in the table. And your code can infer those
positions the same way you would -- by looking at the source file.
Or you can just manually determine the offsets. Note that the end of
column[1] is the beginning of column[2]-1, and so on.
First, steal <http://thotzy.com/THOTZY/lines.html> to break your big
NSString into an array of lines.
Then take each line and use substringWithRange to extract the field
text for each column, then use [NSString
stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:] to trim the field to just the text
contents.
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