I have several thousand files which are distributed into about a thousand folders. All of the folders are contained in one directory on my machine. Each of the thousand folders contains 1-10 files. All of the files in each folder have been compressed using the gzip program. I need to sequence through all of the folders, find the file in each folder labeled "LOG" (there will be only one in each folder, with no extension), and expand it. I then need to examine the expanded LOG file (ASCII text file) and search the LOG file for a specific unique text string that will be the same in all the LOG files. I need to extract the string of a few hundred characters that *follows* the initial matched string in the LOG file. That second string will be terminated by another (different & third) unique text string which will also be the same in all LOG files. I want to place all of the extracted strings into a single boxed array using a single J function.
How hard is it to do this in J? Can someone give me a start in the right direction, perhaps with some example code? I currently only have J 6.02 on my machine. -- Skip Cave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
