Kevin; Let's talk interface.
1) What type of source? Sounds like RTF or html. 2) Output? Array? Global subtree? Width desired? or as wide as possible? The extraction shouldn't be too bad. Just need to decide on some details of how it will work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH looses data for strings>255 characters > I'm sorry about being grumpy about this, but what you > all are saying is to essentially rewrite my own > FTG^%ZISH function. > > Yes, I can open a file and write an input function. > But when one has to go back and rewrite one's API, its > hard to get work done. > > Kevin > > --- Greg Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Be cautious about # reads, though. You might end up > > blocking when the > > data isn't available. But, in any case, Chris is > > right, this sort of > > thisn is easy to code in M. > > --- Chris Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ...or use fixed length reads, concatonate them > > into a buffer and > > > $PIECE them > > > off (separator by space) into convenient lengths > > for storage or > > > display. > > > Most of the M engines out there can handle 510 > > character strings, so > > > 250 > > > character fixed reads (READ X#250) will do well > > for input. Process > > > down the > > > BUFFER you are extracting until the length of the > > BUFFER gets shorter > > > than 2 > > > times the length of the output you want, refill > > the buffer with fixed > > > reads > > > until you get an X returned that is not 250 > > characters in length. > > > > > > This is pretty easy stuff for MUMPS. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Maury Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:36 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH > > looses data for > > > strings>255 characters > > > > > > > > > awk! > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Hardhats Sourceforge" > > <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:24 AM > > > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH > > looses data for > > > strings>255 > > > characters > > > > > > > > > > OK, I'm frustrated. > > > > > > > > My transcriptionists are using a wordprocessors > > that > > > > automatically wrap lines. Thus a paragraph is > > stored > > > > in a text file as one long line. This is often > > longer > > > > than 255 characters. I was under the impression > > that > > > > FTG^%ZISH was aware of this limitation and would > > wrap > > > > the line when uploading strings. > > > > > > > > It doesn't. > > > > > > > > This means that I now have many progress notes > > that > > > > have been erroneously truncated. > > > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. 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