programming question . . .

programming question . . .

[lakeoftea]

I'm trying to write a program that will look at a directory and take
the "_"'s out of all of the files and replace them with spaces.  this
seems like an easy program but i haven't used ada since freshman year
and i'm kind of stumped.  any ideas.  no this is not for an assignment
:)

thanks!

Re: programming question . . .

[Martin]

What compiler/OS are you using?

If you are using GNAT GPL "2005" or "2006" then it comes with
Ada.Directories which will help. For other compilers, try
http://www.martin.dowie.btinternet.co.uk/ and download a version of
Ada.Directories from there. There is a "rename" procedure in this
package.

You could look at using Ada.Strings.Maps for working out the new name
but it's probably overkill. Just loop over the range of the String
object and check/replace as required.

Cheers
-- Martin

lakeoftea wrote:
> I'm trying to write a program that will look at a directory and take
> the "_"'s out of all of the files and replace them with spaces.  this
> seems like an easy program but i haven't used ada since freshman year
> and i'm kind of stumped.  any ideas.  no this is not for an assignment
> :)
> 
> thanks!

Re: programming question . . .

[Maciej Sobczak]

lakeoftea wrote:
> I'm trying to write a program that will look at a directory and take
> the "_"'s out of all of the files and replace them with spaces.

Looks like a perfect job for Tcl/Bash/<your_favorite_script_engine>.


-- 
Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/
Programming    : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/

Re: programming question . . .

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

"lakeoftea" <lakeoftea@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to write a program that will look at a directory and take
> the "_"'s out of all of the files and replace them with spaces.
> this seems like an easy program but i haven't used ada since
> freshman year and i'm kind of stumped.  any ideas.  no this is not
> for an assignment :)

I wouldn't use Ada for this task.  On a well-equipped system, it can
be done with the command:

   perl -pe 's/_/ /g' *

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"The current state of knowledge can be summarised thus:
 In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."

Re: programming question . . .

[Dr. Adrian Wrigley]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:22:27 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> "lakeoftea" <lakeoftea@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm trying to write a program that will look at a directory and take
>> the "_"'s out of all of the files and replace them with spaces.
>> this seems like an easy program but i haven't used ada since
>> freshman year and i'm kind of stumped.  any ideas.  no this is not
>> for an assignment :)
> 
> I wouldn't use Ada for this task.  On a well-equipped system, it can
> be done with the command:
> 
>    perl -pe 's/_/ /g' *

I was thinking about suggesting Perl, but perhaps:

perl -pie 's/_/ /g' *

might be more appropriate? (in-place editing of files)
--
Adrian

Re: programming question . . .

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

Adrian Wrigley wrote:

> I was thinking about suggesting Perl, but perhaps:
>
> perl -pie 's/_/ /g' *
>
> might be more appropriate? (in-place editing of files)

Definitely!  My mistake.

Jacob
-- 
"Human beings just can't not communicate."