Date:         Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:13:00 -0400
Reply-To:     Chang Chung <chang_y_chung@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Chang Chung <chang_y_chung@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: OT: ruby solution to 'Re: How do I sort tokens in a variable'
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Comments: To: Roy Pardee <pardee.r@GHC.ORG>

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:38:38 -0700, Pardee, Roy <pardee.r@GHC.ORG> wrote:

>Can't resist sharing this ruby solution, which uses approach 1.
>
>   input  = File.open("c:/temp/original_data.txt", "r")
>   output = File.open("c:/temp/fixed_data.txt"   , "w")
>
>   input.each_line do |this_line|
>      output.puts(this_line.chomp.split("+").sort.join("+"))
>   end
>
>   input.close
>   output.close
...

can't resist sharing that there are many modern scripting languages that can
pull this off. :-) Here is an ms jscript example. save it as sort.js and
call it at the command line like:  cscript sort.js

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fs = new ActiveXObject("scripting.filesystemObject");

inf = fs.OpenTextFile("c:\\temp\\original_data.txt", 1);     // forReading
outf = fs.OpenTextFile("c:\\temp\\fixed_data.txt", 2, true); // forWriting

while (!inf.AtEndOfStream) {
  outf.WriteLine(inf.ReadLine().split("+").sort().join("+"));
}

inf.Close();
outf.Close();
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