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elitegundam

Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:48 am


Creating multiple files with increasing numbers

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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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elitegundam

Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:13 am


RE:Creating multiple files with increasing numbers

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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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Insectoid

Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:19 am


RE:Creating multiple files with increasing numbers

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use the intstr() command. It converts an integer to a string.


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elitegundam

Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:10 am


Re: Creating multiple files with increasing numbers

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Thanks, that's exactly what I needed!!  :D 

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.