[SOLVED] How to turn this Pseudo-code into something working?

[RobertL]

I was looking for a program that is able to split up txt-files at given lines (e.g. lines that start with WORD or lines that have less than say 11 characters). The only programs I could find where programs that could split txt files by filesize, so I wrote 'my program' in pseudocode. The only problem is: I don't know how to get it working. I would like to have it run directly by opening the file, so something like a Batch-file or Java would be OK (those languages I understand a little). Can someone help me translating it? The coding is allready done. Off course, if you know an existing free program that has the same function, that's OK too.

%% variables:
NUMBER=1    % line number
XX=0        % new files get this number, e.g. file1.txt

while(NUMBER < length(source.txt))
    if(length(line(NUMBER)) < 11)
        check=1
    else
        if(check=1)    % the previous line was short and the current line is not
            XX++
            check=0
            (eventually there has to be created a new file sourceXX.txt with instead of XX a number. The name before XX (source in this case) has to stay the same as the original file (in this case 'source.txt'))
        end
        add a new line to sourceXX.txt (new line without overwriting others. XX is again a number)
    end
    NUMBER++    % go to next line
end

P.S.: My OS is Windows. source.txt can be in the same directory as this script.

 

[bassa]

Refere this sample code

 

[RobertL]

Something like that, but the output should be in seperate new files.
Besides, is it hard to run C# code? How to ignite it?

 

[bassa]

It is not much hard to learn. Download free express edition

Free Developer Tools - Visual Studio 2010 Express | Microsoft Visual Studio

Once you split then you can create new text file and append it

StreamWriter Class (System.IO)

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StreamWriter SW;
SW = File.CreateText("textfile.txt");
SW.WriteLine("line1");
SW.Close();

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you may try this. Can you upload your sample text file

 

[RobertL]

Here's a sample file:
View attachment output.txt

 

[bassa]

check this routine it will create 20 new files for your sample file

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
 
 
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            bool isNewFile =true;
            bool isFileClosed = true;
 
            int fileNum = 0;
            string outputFileName = String.Concat("C:\\output", fileNum, ".txt");
            StreamWriter SW = null;// new StreamWriter(outputFileName);
            
            string w;
            string line = "";
 
            using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("C:\\output.txt"))
            {
                while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    w = line.Substring(0,10);// (sentence, @"\W");
 
                    if (w != "CHECKPOINT")
                    {
                        if (isNewFile)
                        {
                            outputFileName = String.Concat("C:\\output", fileNum, ".txt");
                            fileNum++;
                            SW = new StreamWriter(outputFileName);
                            isNewFile = false;
                            isFileClosed = false;
                        }
                        SW.WriteLine(line);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        isNewFile = true;
                        if (!isFileClosed)
                        {
                            SW.Close();
                            isFileClosed = true;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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hope this help you

 

[RobertL]

Thank you, I will try it tomorrow and let you know.

 

[bassa]

Here you may find the VS2005 (C# 2005) project files