[REBOL] Re: Line reduction
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 7-Jul-2001 2:28
Footnote:
It helps to be able to make up one's mind!!!
Joel Neely wrote:
> source-file: to-file ask "Source file name: "
> output-file: to-file ask "Output file name: "
>
> sample-pct: 0.01 *
> min 100 max 0 to-decimal ask "% of data to sample: "
>
> line-count: length? all-the-data: read/lines to-file source-file
>
> write/lines to-file output-file
> at all-the-data
> to-integer line-count - (line-count - 1 * sample-pct) + 0.5
>
As I played with the above, I kept waffling about whether to apply
TO-FILE at the point of ASK or at the point of use. Clearly I
failed to make the last switch complete!
(But, applying TO-FILE twice is preferable to not at all. ;-)
-jn-
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