On 3/1/06 7:20 AM, "Todd Geist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Question 1: > IF (tASCII < 31 OR tASCII > 255) THEN Why would you test for > 255 since no ASCII would be higher than this? Question 2: Are you trying to strip the characters, or just count them and report the result, like a histogram? Could you show exactly what you are starting with and what you want to end up with? Thanks. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 3/1/06 7:20 AM, "Todd Geist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Again, > > After trying several of the excellent suggestions from all you > revolutionaries, I realized I hadn't quite explained myself... go > figure. So here is another attempt to explain what I am after. > > I am actually after "low" ASCII and "High" ASCII characters that my > have snuck into a text file. So I need to look at every character, > but I don't need to count every character. I just want the ones that > have ASCII values below 32 and above 255 and that are not in a small > set of allowed control characters. > > Based on the suggestions I got on the other thread, I came up with > the following that produces the results I am after. SPEED is > critical here, since the files I am scanning maybe many mbs. I am > wondering if any of you can improve on the design. I feel the need, > the need for SPEED. :>) > > put field 1 into tString > put "10 11 12 29" into charsToIgnore > > REPEAT for each char tChar in tString > put charToNum(tChar) into tASCII > IF (tASCII < 31 OR tASCII > 255) THEN > IF tASCII is not among the words of charsToIgnore THEN > add 1 to tCounts[tASCII] > END IF > END IF > END REPEAT > put the keys of tCounts into tChars > sort lines of tChars numeric > > REPEAT for each line thisLine in tChars > put thisLine & TAB & tCounts[thisLine] & Return after newList > END REPEAT > > put newList into field "Chars" > > Thanks in Advance > > Todd _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
