each
&.>
   empty     NB. definded in stdlib in J7 (but not J6 I think)
(i.0 0)"_
   load 'dir'   NB. required in J6.02 but loaded automatically in J7

As far as I know there is no J addon/library that handles gzipped
files. There are however windows versions of gunzip and as I mentioned
before 7z handles gzip too.
I suspect you will just be able to use &.> (aka each) to "loop
through" your files.

If you provide a simple example of the sort of text you're wanting to
process I think it will be easier for us to point you in the right
direction. E. is likely to be involved though.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote:
> The LOG file in each folder is actually LOG.gz, which has been compressed
> with the open source, patent-free gzip program (http://www.gzip.org). The
> file, when expanded, produces a file named LOG with no extension. Once
> expanded, the LOG file is just a plain ASCII text file.
>
> My first issue will be to discover if there is any utility in the J
> libraries that will expand this .gz file to is native form on a Windows
> machine.
>
> Ric Sherlock has shown us code that will find the LOG.gz file in each
> directory. I will be trying that out later tonight.
>  ; (<empty'') -.~ (1 dir ,&'/LOG') each dirpath 'jsource'
> I will need to figure out what libraries to load in J to get the "empty",,
> "each" and "dir" verbs, so I can try this out.
>
> Once I figure out how to find and open the files, I will need string
> searching utilities to extract the text string I need.
>
> Can this be done in a non-iterating, array style in J, or will I need
> control loops to iterate through all the files?
>
> Skip
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