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hello guys, hope you're doing well. I'm sry for the late reply as my pc was giving troublesome, so I had to send it to servicing center. Anyway, let's come to the topic. First I've tried the below code written by me with the help of richmond62: open file dFile for write -- dFile is the destination t...

So what I've learnt is, array thing is only possible when all the lines have the equal number of items, and subkeying with negative numbers isn't possible to start column counting from the last what is possible only in repeat loop. Btw, it just put me in more tension after I was informed that the te...

thanks Jean-Marc for your solution; but as I said I actually trying to avoid repeat loop as my pc might not be able to handle 300-500 mb size data with repeat loop Do you have any idea to get the result using array?

Hello, I'm trying to get some info from a text file, and the data of the text file looks like this: Gainesville,Libra,5684,1987,Hurp1987,Bedford Feather Sound,3513,1942,Jons1942,Flores Marysville,Sagittarius,6638,1963,Subjes,Williams Orange,Leo,5592,1986,38,Dandrall,Wolf As you can see each line has...

well, my program checks every line in a text file based on some given condition, and gets me the lines according to the condition given what I need is to randomize the lines so the chance to get the expected lines faster since the lines are categorized and I don't know from which line a new categori...

thanks to all of you who took your valuable time for me to help. btw, who are interested to know of my purpose...actually the data in that large text file are categorized...say for example, first 1/3 are cat 1, then 2/3 cat 2, and 3/3 is cat 3...but I don't want it like that...I want it to mix up al...

hello everybody, hope you're doing good. by the way, I was trying to randomize the lines of large a text file (around 100 mb). so for the first time, I used this method: put empty into temp answer file "Select a Text File:" with type "Text File|txt" put it into ifile put url ("file:" & ifile) into t...