[q-lang-users] newbie question on io, etc
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From: <do...@ya...> - 2004-02-22 10:57:07
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Hi Q experts (and thank you Dr Graf for your creation) I'm trying to learn Q. I know some Haskell and C,etc. I realise that the following is the kind of problem that imperative languages are better suited to, but one can learn a lot from seeing how these icky cases are dealt with in non-imperative languages (and the inverse). ----------------------------------------------------- Lets say I have a file containing 2 columns like this: john 12 mary 56 peter ab vincent 24 lisa 34 . . . etc. I would like to read the file and output something like: min score == 12 (John) max score == 56 (Mary) avg score == 31.5 Illegal values: ab in column 2 on line 3. How would I do this in Q? I would especially like to see an imperative solution if it exists. ----------------------------------------------------- I thank you in advance for your assistance. Dorothy K. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com |