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[sunburnt]

seaside; I thought of that, but why bother with BaCon if always using Bash.

Long ago in Quick Basic I noticed the HD cranking with each "read line".
Visual Basic had a second "input" command that would take in the whole file.
I`d like to see BaCon do file I/O and fill arrays quickly in one command.

I thought of just making a BaCon function library to simplify the repetitive code.
But that doesn`t improve BaCon`s actual operation any. It`d still work the HD.

At the moment my thought is porting my Bash app. "sysinfo" to BaCon.
I could do as you suggested, but then why not just have it call sysinfo?
I wrote a wrapper script to redirect sysinfo`s output to a file for BaCon to read.

But BaCon as a wrapper for Bash is sad. What`s the point of a compiled exec.?
For BaCon to be really useful it has to do most code stuff by itself.

[GatorDog]

Sunburnt,

[vovchik]

Dear sunburnt,

I already posted this in the BaCon forum, but here it is again. Just another way:

[big_bass]

thanks vovchik,GatorDog
for the great code snippets

and thanks for sparking the question sunburnt
I was trying to do arrays in BaCon too
as I was following the presize.bac code GatorDog posted
since I am used to doing this in bash I want to do it in Bacon also

arrays are the easy way to pull out data

*really the whole problem with linux in general is
important files have scrambled un formatted
data that needs much filtering to get the data out into "useable"
data if much pre thought went into those important files
we wouldnt need so many different tools to filter out the data
and everything would be easier and faster
I commented about this in "speeding up bash scripts"

[GatorDog]

[sunburnt]

Hey Gatordog; I hadn`t noticed the REGEX command, rather useful.!

big_bass; Yep, there`s sooo much parsing in Bash making it very "codey".
You`d think the authors of Linux`s execs. would`ve made raw output modes.
# That`s why I wrote the Bash function library sysinfo, to get raw data.
I`ll be adding more "needed" functions to it, ie: file size, etc. Any suggestions?
Too bad it becomes a dependency, now if scripts like it were std. in Puppy...

vovchik; Excellent.! I didn`t think of using a variable first. Much simpler.!

[GatorDog]

Hey big_bass,

[vovchik]

Dear big_bass and GatorDog,

This function works for string arrays:

[GatorDog]

Hey vovchik,

[sunburnt]

vovchik; I think I know what`s going on in your code snip, but tell us anyway...

I agree writing a multimedia codec in BaCon would be much better than Bash.
But so much of what`s done ( or needed ) is system related stuff.
There`s not many full blown applications being written that are new.
Most of what I see is people rewriting and reinventing the wheel.

My sysinfo function library is a good example, nothing new there.
I just wanted "no parsing raw data output" for many things all in one file.

[vovchik]

Dear GatorDog and sunburnt,

This is one example of the "bound" function:

[GatorDog]

Ok, got it. I didn't pick up on "STRING" being variable type re: SIZEOF(STRING)

Thanks for clarification and code

GatorDog

[big_bass]

Thanks GatorDog and vovchik
for code examples

I wanted to
fix a small part of the bacon2bb code
that adds the grey color to the comments

and using regular expressions
simplifies this little part of the code to reduce it down to
just this idea the fix will follow

Joe

code
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/regularexp.html

I use this to convert the bb code to html
http://www.bbcode-to-html.com/

*I will have an option to generate html
had to work out the comment part of the code first



@vovchick this is your work with color
you may want to put all these on a web page some day so
here is a start *notice no problem with word wrapping in html
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/vovchik-array.html

[sunburnt]

So the BaCon docs are not quite right...

[big_bass]