Copy a particular line of text file to a new file using SKILL

Sjoerd, thanks for your suggestion. I'd not noticed that all the lines that Jarilak had wanted were those with a result count of other than 0. Of course, we're still guessing what Jarilak actually wants to do!

Jarilak, this goes to show the importance of clearly stating what you want. In fact the first step of writing any program is to identify what it should do - i.e. defining the algorithm. The actual step of converting that algorithm into a specific language is secondary. If you can't state the algorithm clearly in English (or in a pseudo-langauge) first, there's little hope of implementing it in SKILL.

If indeed you wanted all the lines with Total Result Count != 0 then I would do something like:

pattern=pcreCompile("TOTAL Result Count =")
inp=infile("./input.txt")
outp=outfile("./output.txt")
when(inp && outp
  while(gets(line inp)
    when(pcreExecute(pattern line) && atoi(car(last(parseString(line))))!=0  ; check line matches and has the last token being non-zero
      fprintf(outp "%s" line)
    )
  )
  close(inp)
  close(outp)
)

Please be more precise in your questions next time - whilst I understand that people are new to a programming language, that doesn't mean that it's OK to ask poorly framed questions where it requires guesswork to work out what you want. It's easier in those circumstances to just ignore the question and focus on something where a more precise question has been asked, given that we're all volunteers and have limited spare time.

Kindest regards,

Andrew.

Sjoerd, thanks for your suggestion. I'd not noticed that all the lines that Jarilak had wanted were those with a result count of other than 0. Of course, we're still guessing what Jarilak actually wants to do!

Jarilak, this goes to show the importance of clearly stating what you want. In fact the first step of writing any program is to identify what it should do - i.e. defining the algorithm. The actual step of converting that algorithm into a specific language is secondary. If you can't state the algorithm clearly in English (or in a pseudo-langauge) first, there's little hope of implementing it in SKILL.

If indeed you wanted all the lines with Total Result Count != 0 then I would do something like:

pattern=pcreCompile("TOTAL Result Count =")
inp=infile("./input.txt")
outp=outfile("./output.txt")
when(inp && outp
  while(gets(line inp)
    when(pcreExecute(pattern line) && atoi(car(last(parseString(line))))!=0  ; check line matches and has the last token being non-zero
      fprintf(outp "%s" line)
    )
  )
  close(inp)
  close(outp)
)

Please be more precise in your questions next time - whilst I understand that people are new to a programming language, that doesn't mean that it's OK to ask poorly framed questions where it requires guesswork to work out what you want. It's easier in those circumstances to just ignore the question and focus on something where a more precise question has been asked, given that we're all volunteers and have limited spare time.

Kindest regards,

Andrew.