Anyone know of an application to . . .
I'm afraid I allowed my enthusiasm to get away from me, and am now paying the price. Since I prefer to avoid re-inventing the wheel, but haven't found something to download, I thought I'd ask if the geeks have any recommendations.
The requirement is to:
1. Open several text files, or one file that results from concatenating those files together;
2. Build a table of contents, based on scanning the file;
3. Delete entire lines of text, based on a keyword search.
It would be ideal if the application runs on Linux, but I can also work with something on Win2K. Given how long it's been since I've written code, it'll be several days before I figure out the "delete entire line" command.
Oh, for those who really want to know, I'm building an email digest.* That's so common, I figure there's got to be code out there to do it already.
*. Presently by hand. The mail client I'm extracting the emails from will save them to text files, but only one at a time. And with more header and footer information than I knew it had.
The requirement is to:
1. Open several text files, or one file that results from concatenating those files together;
2. Build a table of contents, based on scanning the file;
3. Delete entire lines of text, based on a keyword search.
It would be ideal if the application runs on Linux, but I can also work with something on Win2K. Given how long it's been since I've written code, it'll be several days before I figure out the "delete entire line" command.
Oh, for those who really want to know, I'm building an email digest.* That's so common, I figure there's got to be code out there to do it already.
*. Presently by hand. The mail client I'm extracting the emails from will save them to text files, but only one at a time. And with more header and footer information than I knew it had.