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- PICK: Tara Datafile Utilities, v. 2.0, (c) 1987 by David C. Oshel
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- Picks a subset of MailMerge-type records and copies them to standard output.
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- Usage: C>pick 7 gt $10,000.00 <salary.dat >short.dat
- C>pick 5 ne "Ames, IA" <salary.dat >>short.dat
- C>pick Miocene <b:\datastar\biblio.dta
- C>pick -f\ 13 ge r <names.dat | pick -f\ 13 lt s | more
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- Your INPUT DATAFILE (with <) is chosen on the command line. You may give a
- complete pathname to another drive and/or subdirectory.
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- The first example (with >) sends the OUTPUT to a new file, named "short.dat".
- The second (with >>) appends additional output to the same file, "short.dat".
- The third sends any record with "Miocene" anywhere to the SCREEN (with no >).
- The fourth, if field 13 (separated by "\") starts with "R", view it on screen.
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- Commands have three arguments: The FIELD NUMBER, OPERATOR, and SEARCH VALUE.
- The operators are EQ, NE, LT, GT, LE, GE, /LT, /GT, /LE, /GE, HAS and LACKS.
- Field X is to the immediate left of the Xth comma, but field 0 is the entire
- record. Search values may be quoted. Arguments may be missing. The default
- operator is HAS, "contains", or GE if field is not 0. "/LT" means NOT LT.
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