Not too long ago I would have been annoyed by the quote depth of that last message. I'll just take it as an opportunity to reply to several at once. E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> writes:
The text file has been broken since May 2012. This is a genealogical database, that runs in a program that accesses the file, which consists of names, dates, places, etc, plus notes. I think the bogus character might be an at sign @ but if so, it won't help to search for it, because GEDCOMS contain several @ for each individual. My database contains 115,000 individuals. I think I know what family (surname) I was working on when it broke, though, and it still hangs there. I guess I could grep the file for that surname and get it to output a couple of lines after it finds each instance.
I didn't know what could be meant by "broken text file", now I see that you mean "broken file processing program". Do you have the source for the geneology program? If not, insert rant here. Does the program crash as soon as you import the file, or only when you do something particular? My first impulse would be to put printf commands into the input procedure. Do you have a spec for what the data is supposed to look like, or is this one of those take-the-money-and-(run|hide|sell updates) programs, whose authors think that's super double secret eye pee?
> Sent messages last month asking about the monthly meeting. No > response in > a month. No messages in a month. > > My time with WLUG was fun & informative. I wish you all health & > happiness. > > Thank you, > > Joel > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug@mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
--(* 7 wlug-header) Jeez, Joel, sit back down, chill out. I don't reply to questions if I don't know. (Unless a woman asks about a database) I don't think wlug is dead, but I don't know how to schedule a room at WPI. Just a short time ago we were watching robots build robots from source code. Somebody will find the next meeting on a back-up tape. I have a question too, but I'll save it for a another message. -- Keith