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- Subject: Enhancing J file capabilities
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.172751.20058@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:00:05 UT
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- no. 6839150 filed 16.56.53 thu 17 dec 1992
- from pow@ipsa
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- subj Enhancing J file capabilities
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- @transferred from ipsa no. 5452748 filed 16.56.43 thu 17 dec 1992
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- I have almost finished some J verbs to provide access to files by key
- value. These might be what you're looking for. Usage is as follows.
-
- Create <'filename' Creates a file and initializes its directory.
- (key;value)Put <'filename' Stores value in filename by key, any noun.
- key Get <'filename' Returns value stored in filename under key.
- Dir <'filename' Returns a directory showing the file's keys and
- where they are located in filename.
-
- There will be a few other verbs, e.g. Find
- and Squeeze.
-
- These verbs take care of growing replaces. If a Put is of a new key, the
- value is padded and appended to the end of the file. If the Put is of an
- existing key, it goes back in the existing slot, if it fits. If it doesn't
- fit, the value is padded and appended.
-
- The representation of J objects in a file uses 5!:5. This means that keys
- can be more than the usual character strings. You can quite happily have
- i.4 10 as a key. Precision of representation depends entirely on 5!:5.
- Values are recreated with ". .
-
- For your particular example, you could:
-
- Create f=.<'NFL'
- Team=. whatever...
- ('Miami';Team)Put f
-
- Then later,
-
- Team =. 'Miami' Get f
- Team =. Team plus some new information
- ('Miami';Team)Put f
-
- This is all a little fragile today, but if it's of interest, I'd be happy
- to improve it and make it available.
-
- Mike Powell
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