context sensitive help (ctrl-F1) on fread should open files.ijs 

Either I or you mis-remember or forget, this should have been
asked by you and answered by me in J forum.

Пн, 27 май 2013, Murray Eisenberg писал(а):
> 
> On 26 May 2013 15:32:47 -0600, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That does it; thanks!
> 
> But how do you know about the optional 'b' argument of fread? I cannot find 
> documentation about fread at all -- either in J701 or J801 using scriptdoc or 
> in the help pages, included with J or on-line.
> 
> Where did you find that documented?
> 
> And if it's not in the documentation, is this something one is just supposed 
> to intuit, or know only if he's a member of some secret cult and is told as 
> part of initiation rites?
> 
> > sortandprint=:4 : 0
> > 
> > text=.'b' fread y
> > 
> > text=./:~text
> > 
> > text=.text,&.>LF
> > 
> > (;text) fwrite x
> > 
> > )
> > 
> > 
> > The 'b' option means box each line.
> > 
> > 
> > y is file to read,
> > 
> > x is file to write sorted.
> > 
> > 
> > If you are dealing with windows and need CRLF as a line separator, replace
> > the LF with <CRLF.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Murray Eisenberg 
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm really out of practice with J, and the meager-to-nonexistent
> >> documentation is not helping me. I have a very simple task to perform. I
> >> have a text file infile.txt on my desktop and here's what I want to do:
> >> 
> >> (1) read the file as lines (so I don't get all the end-of-line symbols);
> >> (2) sort the file's lines (alphabetically)
> >> (3) write out the result as a new text file, say outfile.txt, also on my
> >> desktop.
> >> 
> >> I can do this trivially in Mathematica:
> >> 
> >> t = Import["~/Desktop/infile.txt", "Lines"]
> >> Export["~/Desktop/outfile.txt", Sort[t]]
> >> 
> >> But how would I do this in J (which, for longer files, ought to be faster)
> >> and how would I discover how to do it? I prefer to use named library
> >> functions where applicable.
> 
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