[comp.binaries.atari.st] v11i098: xxxx -- Insert numbers into files

koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) (08/15/90)

Submitted-by: cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Gregory Lemperle-Kerr)
Posting-number: Volume 11, Issue 98
Archive-name: xxxx


XXXX

This program was written for a friend who was printing up raffle
tickets on his ST with PageStream.  It will search through a
file and replace a sequence of XXXXs with an incremental counter.

usage: xxxx filename.ext -start -count -numberofx -duplicates

e.g. from mupfel or gulam:

xxxx filename.doc -1000 -250 -4 -2

will replace 250 sequences of 4 'X's with a counter starting at
1000 and going through 1249.  Actually 500 replacements will be
done since duplicates is set to 2.  My friend had a stub and
a name/address form so each had to be numbered the same.

('xxxx filename.ext' will default to the those values - 1000,250,4,2).

'xxxx' will return instructions.

Nitty gritty: if there are not enough sequences of 'X's, new files will
	be created.  e.g. my friend had 5 pages of 3 tickets in a
	file called raffle.doc - the output of XXXX was into sixteen
	files called raf000.doc - raf015.doc, since 16*5*3 >= 250.

-- Greg

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