Re: Reading through files

[rittle@comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle)]

>Date: 	Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:57:01 -0400
>From: "Gregory L. Snead" <gsnead@harlequin.com>

>  I'm missing something conceptually.  I have a file that I want
>to read through one line at a time and perform some type of
>operation in es using the data read in.  I've read through
>the man page a couple of times and I don't see how I can do this.
>What am I missing?  How do I do this?

Although the on-line manual gives you everything you need, some
synthesis must be done to put the pieces together.  Here is a
quick example:

for (i= `` \n {cat /etc/passwd}) # in turn, i is assigned each line from file
  {j= <={%fsplit : $i};          # i is broken down into fields in temp j
   echo $j(1)}                   # the symbolic user id is printed for line i

See on-line es manual for details on
%fsplit,
`` ifs-list { command },
and for (var = list) command

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