Re: File sorting question

2011-08-18 Thread ERIC KRAUSE
Brandon and Jim, Thank you for the replies. They were very helpful. I have gotten past my blockage. Eric On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Brandon McCaig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:59 PM, ERIC KRAUSE wrote: >> The problem for me is the line endings I think. When I open the >> file and read

Re: File sorting question

2011-08-17 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:59 PM, ERIC KRAUSE wrote: > The problem for me is the line endings I think. When I open the > file and read in one line, I get the whole file. I think the > line endings are ^p (MS paragraph markers), but I can't open > the file to view them. The files are huge, 150M or b

Re: File sorting question

2011-08-17 Thread Jim Gibson
On 8/17/11 Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:59 PM, "ERIC KRAUSE" scribbled: > Hello all, > I am beating my head against the wall, any help would be appreciated. > > I have a file: > / // / m / cvfbcbf/ A123/ / / /// > / // / m / cvfbcbf/ A234/ / / /// > / /

File sorting question

2011-08-17 Thread ERIC KRAUSE
Hello all, I am beating my head against the wall, any help would be appreciated. I have a file: / // / m / cvfbcbf/ A123/ / / /// / // / m / cvfbcbf/ A234/ / / /// / // / m / cvfbcbf/ B123/ / / /// There is spaces in the b