FILUM
File Utilities

FILUM is a MATLAB library of routines for working with information in text files.

Related Data and Programs:

CR2LF is a C++ program which reads a text file and replaces carriage returns by line feeds.

CRRM is a C++ program which reads a text file and removes the carriage return character.

DEBLANK is a C++ program which reads a text file and writes a copy which has no blank lines.

DECOMMENT is a C++ program that makes a copy of a text file which contains no "comment" lines (that begin with "#").

FILUM is also available in a C++ version, a FORTRAN90 version, and a Mathematica version.

REFORMAT is a FORTRAN90 program that makes a copy of a file with a given number of "words" per line.

REWORD is a C++ program that reads a text file and writes a copy which has a fixed number of "words" per line.

UNCONTROL is a C++ program that makes a copy of a text file which contains no control characters.

WRAP is a C++ program that makes a copy of a text file in which no line is longer than a user-specified wrap length.

WRAP2 is a C++ program which wraps long lines in a text file, but which wraps some lines "early", so as to avoid breaking words.

Reference:

1. Paul Bratley, Bennett Fox, Linus Schrage,
   A Guide to Simulation,
   Springer Verlag, pages 201-202, 1983.
2. Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington,
   "8.6: Picking a Random Line from a File",
   Perl Cookbook, pages 284-285,
   O'Reilly, 1999.
3. Pierre L'Ecuyer,
   Random Number Generation,
   in Handbook of Simulation,
   edited by Jerry Banks,
   Wiley Interscience, page 95, 1998.
4. Bennett Fox,
   Algorithm 647: Implementation and Relative Efficiency of Quasirandom Sequence Generators,
   ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
   Volume 12, Number 4, pages 362-376, 1986.
5. Philip Lewis, Allen Goodman, James Miller,
   A Pseudo-Random Number Generator for the System/360,
   IBM Systems Journal,
   Volume 8, pages 136-143, 1969.

Source Code:

• ch_cap.m, capitalizes a character;
• ch_eqi.m, returns true if two characters are equal, ignoring case;
• ch_is_digit.m, returns true if a character is a decimal digit;
• ch_low.m, lowercases a character;
• ch_to_digit.m, converts a character to a decimal digit;
• ch_to_rot13.m, converts a character to its ROT13 equivalent;
• digit_dec.m, decrements a decimal digit;
• digit_inc.m, increments a decimal digit;
• digit_to_ch.m, converts a decimal digit to a character;
• file_char_count.m, counts the number of characters in a file;
• file_column_count.m, counts the number of columns in the first line of a file;
• file_delete.m, deletes a file;
• file_exist.m, is true if a file exists;
• file_line_uniform.m, returns a random line from a file;
• file_line_width.m, returns the length of the longest line in a file;
• file_name_dec.m, "decrements" a partially numeric filename;
• file_name_ext_get.m, gets the extension of a filename;
• file_name_ext_swap.m, replaces the current extension of a filename;
• file_name_inc.m, "increments" a partially numeric filename;
• file_para_count.m, counts the number of paragraphs in a file;
• file_row_count.m, counts the number of rows in a file;
• file_tag_check.m, makes a generalized parenthesis check on the text of a file;
• file_unique.m, makes a copy of the unique lines of a sorted file;
• file_word_count.m, counts the number of words in a file;
• i4_uniform.m, returns a scaled pseudorandom I4;
• number_inc.m, increments the integer represented by a string;
• r4_uniform_01.m, returns a unit pseudorandom R4;
• r8_uniform_01.m, returns a unit pseudorandom R8;
• s_adjustl.m, shifts a string to the left, "squeezing out" the leading blanks.
• s_cat.m, concatenates two strings;
• s_eqi.m, is true if two strings are equal, disregarding case;
• s_index.m, returns the index of the first occurrence of a substring in a string.
• s_index_last_c.m, returns the index of the last occurrence of a character in a string.
• s_len_trim.m, returns the length of a string to the last nonblank;
• s_low.m, makes a lowercase copy of a string;
• s_reverse.m, reverses a string;
• s_to_r8.m, reads an R8 from a string;
• s_to_r8vec.m, reads an R8VEC from a string;
• s_to_rot13.m, converts a string to its ROT13 equivalent;
• s_word_count.m, counts the number of "words" in a string;
• timestamp.m, prints the HMSDMY date as a timestamp;

Examples and Tests:

• filum_test.m, runs all the tests;
• filum_test.out, the output from all the tests;
• filum_test02.m, tests FILE_CHAR_COUNT;
• filum_test03.m, tests FILE_COLUMN_COUNT;
• filum_test06.m, tests FILE_EXIST;
• filum_test085.m, tests FILE_LINE_WIDTH;
• filum_test11.m, tests FILE_NAME_DEC;
• filum_test13.m, tests FILE_NAME_EXT_SWAP;
• filum_test14.m, tests FILE_NAME_INC;
• filum_test15.m, tests FILE_NAME_INC;
• filum_test17.m, tests FILE_PARA_COUNT;
• filum_prb_4by5.txt, a file with missing right parentheses;
• story.txt, a file containing a title line and 5 paragraphs of text.

MARCUS_TEST is an example that demonstrates how FILE_NAME_INC and FILE_NAME_DEC can be used to generate, save, and recover iterative data;

• marcus_test.m, the main example routine.
• marcus_test.out, the output from the test;

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