Manipulating Documents

apoch632

I have a set of documents. They are all in one text file.

e.g

1
compact memories have flexible capacities a digital data storage
system with capacity up to bits and random and or sequential access
is described
/
2
an electronic analogue computer for solving systems of linear equations
mathematical derivation of the operating principle and stability
conditions for a computer consisting of amplifiers
/
3
electronic coordinate transformer circuit details are given for
the construction of an electronic calculating unit which enables
the polar coordinates of a vector modulus and cosine or sine of the
argument to be derived from those of a rectangular system of axes
/
4
the british computer society report of a conference held in cambridge
june
/

What i want to do is write a program or script that the takes the number at the top and thats the file name. The text below is whats in the file and it stops at the /

So the documents would be
1.txt = "compact memories have flexible capacities a digital data storage
system with capacity up to bits and random and or sequential access
is described"

2.txt = "an electronic analogue computer for solving systems of linear equations mathematical derivation of the operating principle and stability
conditions for a computer consisting of amplifiers"

So on, so on


Anyone give me a hand in doing this or show me a good tutorial to do this. C or Java Or Scripting doesn't matter

Tom Dunne

Rather than tell you exactly how to do it, how about you post up the pseudo-code for what you want to achieve.

Perl looks like a good candidate for the job, btw.

fasty

I guess something like sscanf in C would do the trick. There are millions of tutorials on the web about how to open a file, read it line by line and scan for patterns to see where each "document" of yours begins and ends and then write them all out to separate files.

Capt'n Midnight

Is / the end of file character for each doc ?

apoch632

Yeah it is. I'll post what code i have soon enough

apoch632

Ignore