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Re: sort, cut and paste
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Re: sort, cut and paste


  • Subject: Re: sort, cut and paste
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:35:43 -0700
  • Thread-topic: sort, cut and paste

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:49:00 EDT, email@hidden said:
>I need to perform some sorting, cutting and pasting in my Cocoa app on ASCII
>files. No - not the cutting and pasting found under the edit menu, but like
>the commands used at the command line. In "Building Cocoa Applications" from
>O'Reilly, I noticed they created a small app with lex and yacc and then linked
it
>with the Cocoa application with a pipe from within Project Builder/Xcode.
>
>Is it possible to do this as well with the cut, sort, paste and join commands
>used in bash? Or am I going about this the wrong way? Are there similar Cocoa
>API's that do this?
>
>The text files are all fixed width and are comma delimited.

You probably want to use NSTask. It is your gateway to the command line. You
can include a script in Perl or Ruby or whatever you like, in your bundle,
and run it. m.

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