RE: skipping lines of input from another program...

2004-02-09 Thread West, William M
> >I think you have an over-elaborate design for this anyway. I think it's >likely that your data can be processed better than just by skipping 'n' >lines between useful records. And even if this is the way you want to go >there's nothing wrong with well- my design is likely not that great over

Re: skipping lines of input from another program...

2004-02-06 Thread Rob Dixon
William M West wrote: > > in the post that i am now replying to, i said that i couldn't get > the program to skip lines as it parsed through the output of another > program. > > i have "solved" the problem- but i do not know WHY this works the > way it does. > > > > > > this worked great :) (than

RE: skipping lines of input from another program...

2004-02-06 Thread West, William M
in the post that i am now replying to, i said that i couldn't get the program to skip lines as it parsed through the output of another program. i have "solved" the problem- but i do not know WHY this works the way it does. this worked great :) (thanks to drieux) - in fact, it would let

skipping lines of input from another program...

2004-02-06 Thread West, William M
the following is my script that i am working on- it fails to do quite the right thing.. qouting from one of the comments below:: "#skip_lines() is supposed to "skip" some lines of output. #The problem is, that it DOESN'T even though the debug print statement # "print "trash is $trash \n