--- PackRat wrote:
> Yes, I'm quite sure that I have enough information to work with.
> Thanks again to everyone who responded!
>
> I'll answer your further questions, though:
>
I'm not sure if you wanted further help at the moment, if not then stop
reading now!! ;-)
I think the following verb should read and clean up all of the file
types except the "pure textual data".
You may want to treat them as a special case and deal with them
separately. Alternatively you could leave all the files boxed and work
with boxed data rather than literal arrays.
libread=: 3 : 0
cnt=. 'b' freads jpath y NB. read file into boxed list
nums=. (48+i.10){a. NB. numbers
lowerc=. (97+i.26){a. NB. lowercase letters
ishead=. -.+./ (0{:: cnt) e. lowerc,nums NB. test for header line
cnt=. ishead }.cnt NB. drop header if necessary
cnt=. >'"' -.~ each cnt NB. remove any double quotes and unbox to
literal matrix
ispref=. *./ ({."1 cnt) e. lowerc NB. test for prefix
cnt=. ispref }."1 cnt NB. drop prefix if necessary
)
dat=. libread '~temp/myfile.txt' NB. To read file into noun dat
dat fwrites jpath '~temp/myfileproc.txt' NB. To write noun to file
again.
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