Program Writing

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Sheri

I am searching for something that will assist me in writing a program to
search through .csv text files......something that will allow me to design
what I want it to look like....prefereably something free and easy to
understand.
I am not a programmer.....but would like to give it a try at making all of
my data text files searchable from within a customized program that will
also allow me to copy-protect it.

Anyone have any suggestions?
Warm regards,
Sheri
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Sheri said:
I am searching for something that will assist me in writing a program
to search through .csv text files......something that will allow me
to design what I want it to look like....prefereably something free
and easy to understand.
I am not a programmer.....but would like to give it a try at making
all of my data text files searchable from within a customized program
that will also allow me to copy-protect it.

Anyone have any suggestions?
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Sheri said:
I am searching for something that will assist me in writing a program to
search through .csv text files......something that will allow me to design
what I want it to look like....prefereably something free and easy to
understand.
I am not a programmer.....but would like to give it a try at making all of
my data text files searchable from within a customized program that will
also allow me to copy-protect it.
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If you want to write a program, there are lots of programming languages,
scripting tools, and command-line utilities which you can use - some
have been suggested.

If you just want to find some information, you probably have tools
bundled with your operating system which will do the basic job (though
you can't design what it will look like). In versions of Unix, grep,
sed, and awk may be worth a look (there are command-line versions of
these for Microsoft Windows too). Grep is a fairly simple multiple file
searcher; sed and awk are essentially scripting languages. Windows
itself comes with a search utility; you can easily search all files with
extension ".csv" on a hard drive for specified text, and list the names
of the files containing the text.

HTH,
 
Python, www.python.org , is very easy to learn. There are quite a few really
good tutorials out there. Their newsgroup, "comp.lang.python" is very
helpful also.
Louis
 
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