Perhaps I would use awk to format the data to J-friendly data :)
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Don Kelly <d...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> why not this - even though it uses spaces instead of semicolons for
> separators. while this may not be just what you want, at least the result is
> numerical and can be operated on numerically.
> file=:>1 2;4 5;6 7
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> file
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> 1 2
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> 4 5
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> 6 7
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> +/"1 file
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> 3 9 13
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> or this
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> +/|: file
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> 3 9 13
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> file2=:>1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9
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> 1 2 3
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> 4 5 6
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> 7 8 9
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> +/"1 file2
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> 6 15 24
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> +/|: file2
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> 6 15 24
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> Don Kelly
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> On 14/02/2014 6:51 PM, Lee Fallat wrote:
>>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> As new user to J (but several years experience with C and Java), I
>> find it very, very interesting. The power of its one liners and
>> mathematical heritage really have me hooked. I was wondering though
>> if it has similar capabilities as awk. What's the equivalent to this
>> awk script in J?:
>>
>> BEGIN { FS=";" }
>> { print $1+$2 }
>>
>> This script sets a FieldSeparator to ;, and then for every "row", add
>> the first and second column and prints it. I would like to replace awk
>> with J!
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Lee
>>
>> P.S. Excuse me if I've misidentified J sentences. (Sentences ->
>> statements?)
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