I want to create a program that uses data from text files, makes appropriate calculations and produces report. First I need to find out what is the right way to retrieve appropriate information from an input file. This is a typical format of the input file:
1 Polonijna Liga Mistrzow |from the heading portion
26 wrzesnia 2005 |only
6 12 6 4 1 |'6' and '4' will be needed
0 1 0
Bohossian - Kolinski |all names and
1 |all scores
1.000 9 13 19 |(3rd column -
2.000 2 4 16 |'13', '4', '8', '6'
1.000 10 8 17 |will be needed
0.000 8 6 17 |
Szadkowska - Szczurek |
2 |same here
0.000 11 16 20 |
3.000 1 -4 14 |
3.500 3 -7 13
2.500 10 13 19
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1 1 |skip the rest
1 1 1 |(at least for now)
6 4
5 10
8 3
9 1
11 2
12 7
-50 -7 7
0 0 0
400 0 0
-110 -2 2
-130 1 -1
100 -1 1
110 -4 4
150 4 -4
400 0 0
-90 -1 1
100 6 -6
100 -1 1
420 4 -4
110 5 -5
-480 -1 1
1310 15 -15
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Should I use string manipulations or convert a file to lists of lists to retrieve names and numbers? I have unsuccessfully tried to code using the latter but I couldn't overcome the fact that lists representing each raw of a text file have different lengths.
How could I associate each name with a score (a sum of scores)?
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