* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 17:51]: > Right. But I gave up on it when I fough 30 minutes this morning on > reading in a file formatted like this: > > <user>\s+<filename> > > with a while loop: > > while read user filename; do > echo "$user : $filename" > done < thefile > > this is supposed to work, but for whetever reason, it didn't this > morning, and would put everything into $user and leave $filename > blank. of course I checked $IFS. of course i did everything to debug. > i couldn't find the solution. so i gave up.
Fair enough, and perl is very good at string and stream manipulation, but unfortunately it is not something I use, so cannot help you there, and I don't think you want to start mucking around in scheme code, just expanding the problem rather than solving it. > > i've learnt perl. it's just been too long and it would take me ages to > get back into it. i will, just not today. This I can commiserate with.:) > > and python: i am not going to use a language where the indentation of > a line is part of the syntax. i just won't. makes for nicely indented code.;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
