Hi George,
I'm not sure that I understand your question. The stack is being
developed for data files which, although not ideally formatted, are of a
specific format. In other words, I know that each record begins with a
specific character or words and each one ends with a specific character
or words (e.g., "//"). I checked that by openning the file in a word
processor (it's possible but awkward) and looking at a few pages.
Greg
On 28/11/2000 1:24 PM, George Wade wrote:
>Something that strikes me with this question is:
>
>How do you check that the stack is doing what you want it to; once it is
>running and seems to be working. It is not practical to check by hand. It
>does not seem quite as simple as doing a search for "//" in BBEdit on the
>original data and counting the number of matches compared to the number
>returned by your stack.
>
>Perhaps write alternative stacks to do the same task; see if they produce
>identical results, debug till they do; compare running times + reliability
>and use the best. Two birds with one stone.
>
>I hope this was a useful question to ask?
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