Computer Science Canada Creating multiple files with increasing numbers |
| Author: | elitegundam [ Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Creating multiple files with increasing numbers |
In short, I'm trying to create a program that will split an ebook into individual chapters. All the files I'll be working with are already in .txt format. I'm having some troubles with the open : get command, such as length (There's a lot of words in an ebook). Most of them I should be able to get around with some loops, and the seek/tell commands. My big problem is (or will be) the file names for each chapter. I'd like to have them "chapter01, chapter02" etc. I've looked through a lot of the tutorials, and owe a huge debt of gratitude to many of the authors, but I haven't been able to find anything that might help with this problem. As far as I can tell, I can only add a string to the end of a filename, and for increasing numbers the variable would need to be an number (int or real). I'm sure there's an easy solution that I just haven't found yet, so any help would be appreciated. As a last resort, I think I can use chr to name the chapters "chaptera, chapterb" etc... |
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| Author: | elitegundam [ Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Creating multiple files with increasing numbers |
Update: The problem I thought was due to size, was actually caused by quotation marks in the book. I'm not sure if there's a way to bypass that with "get", but I changed them in the book, not the most feasible solution, but enough for the testing stage. It's now a fairly small program, looping until it hits the word "chapter", then restarting the loop (ideally writing to a new file each time). The only problem I have now is writing to a different file for each chapter, ideally with sequential numbers. |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Creating multiple files with increasing numbers |
use the intstr() command. It converts an integer to a string. |
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| Author: | elitegundam [ Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating multiple files with increasing numbers |
Thanks, that's exactly what I needed!! 
I came across it in one of the tutorials, but was a bit confused about what it did (should have paid a bit more attention). It's been close to 10 years since I used Turing, looks like I've got a lot to re-learn if I plan on doing anything else, as well as a lot of "new" features. |
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