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From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Text_IO, was: Re: Something I don't understand
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:09:27 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:

> On 2014-02-19, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>

> Background material on $FAO is at:
> 
> 	http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/4527/4527pro_047.html
> 
> The table of formatting directives are at the bottom of that page.
> 
> Of interest is the directive "!%S" which inserts either "S" or "s" if
> the most recent numeric value was not one, the directive "!n%C" which
> inserts a specific string if the previous numeric field value matches
> the "n" condition and the "!%E" directive which inserts a string if the
> previous numeric field value did _not_ match a previous "!n%C" test.
> 
> Something like that would handle this problem rather cleanly.

the best laid plans,
of mouses and mans
gang aft agley...

- Brian