Ric Sherlock wrote: > If you give a simple example of the initial CRLF-separated lists and the > format of a vector post-processing it may be possible to simplify > further.
Thanks to both you and Henry for your responses! OK, here's a simple example: Diskfile: Vector: . . . . . . . . . Diskfile: 3<CR><LF> --> 3 1 2 --> sort* --> 1 2 3 --> 1<CR><LF> 1<CR><LF> 2<CR><LF> 2<CR><LF> 3<CR><LF> * or other operations, particularly set operations (and, or, not, dedupe, etc.) The <CR><LF> <--> <LF> conversions are assumed above. Essentially, I am calling the J server from a script written in another language, so that I can use J's fast array processing for handling one or two vanilla ASCII files exported from another application, and then creating a new vanilla ASCII file to reimport into that application. I hope that gives some more context. Thanks again! Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
