But I _am_ saying that every C, C++, Java, PHP, Shellscript programmer will be able to understand it
Gee, Marc,
I kinda figured every English-speaking programmer (and even some non programmers) could understand:
put 0 into word3Total
repeat for each line theValues in someText
add word 3 of item 6 of theValues to word3Total
end repeat
And I put that in because you indicated you couldn't imagine why you would ever need to get word 3 of item 6 of line 17 of someText. Scenario: Your project leader gives you a CD and says, "Here is a comma-delimited text file of financial data. The sixth field in each record contains three numeric values separated by spaces. I need to know the total of the third value for all records."
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