1. A poorly named Curt Hill utility program
MakeMOO
A poorly named Curt Hill utility program
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2. Purpose
The program takes input lines and reformats them according to user specified directions
Inputs
Command directives from the screen
Input file
Output
A new file modified from the inputs
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3. Input file
Usually the output from a database or spreadsheet, but could be any program
Each line should have a fixed number of fields
Separated by a comma or tab character
One line of file will be read in early
and the number of fields counted
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4. Output file Output of each line is similar Constructed from
Constants in the directives
Fields from the corresponding input line
Constructed by directives
Input field order and output field order does not have to match
Not all input fields need to be output
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5. Initial Screen
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6. First Actions
Select whether your input file has commas or tabs for delimiters using the checkbox
Click the Open button and select the file
You may have to change the directory or extension to the that of your file
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7. Then What?
After an open MakeMoo will show you the first file and the fields that it has found on that line
Enter the format of the new line using ordinary constants and position descriptors
A position descriptor is the % followed by the digit of the field
When this is complete hit the save button and choose the file
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8. Example
In the following screen shots we will take the data from a database query and modify into SQL commands
Steps
Copy the results
Save as a file
Point MakeMOO at the file
Form directives
Save result
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9. SQL Results Page
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10. Notepad++
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11. Before Directives
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12. After Directives
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13. Results
insert into faculty values (444, 'Preston Bush', 'MATH', 'PhD', 41,10, ,'Math')
insert into faculty values (765, 'Susan Rock', 'MATH','PhD', 60,10, ,'Math Ed')
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14. Finally
MakeMOO thinks of the characters except % and \ as just characters
So it will just copy those in
The example doubled the comma between fields 6 and 7
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