Can C++ do this?

[Gordon Ashford]

I am new to C++ and have started looking at some of the basic functionality.
My aim to to create a process which can take a file (in .txt, .csv format
etc) and run various analyses (including but not limited to Sorting,
Summarizing, Duplicates etc) creating new outputs along the way.

I am aiming to do this in a Windows enviroment but expect record counts that
will exceed the limitations of Excel.

Can something of this nature be written using C++.

Thanks

Gordon

 

[Gernot Frisch]

I am new to C++ and have started looking at some of the basic functionality.
My aim to to create a process which can take a file (in .txt, .csv format
etc) and run various analyses (including but not limited to Sorting,
Summarizing, Duplicates etc) creating new outputs along the way.

I am aiming to do this in a Windows enviroment but expect record counts that
will exceed the limitations of Excel.

Can something of this nature be written using C++.

Thanks

Gordon

Yes.
-Gernot

 

[John Harrison]

I am new to C++ and have started looking at some of the basic functionality.
My aim to to create a process which can take a file (in .txt, .csv format
etc) and run various analyses (including but not limited to Sorting,
Summarizing, Duplicates etc) creating new outputs along the way.

I am aiming to do this in a Windows enviroment but expect record counts that
will exceed the limitations of Excel.

Can something of this nature be written using C++.

Yes. I would expect something of that nature to be programmable in pretty
much any language you cared to name. Just go for the one you are most
familiar with.

john

 

[lallous]

I am new to C++ and have started looking at some of the basic functionality.
My aim to to create a process which can take a file (in .txt, .csv format
etc) and run various analyses (including but not limited to Sorting,
Summarizing, Duplicates etc) creating new outputs along the way.

I am aiming to do this in a Windows enviroment but expect record counts that
will exceed the limitations of Excel.

Can something of this nature be written using C++.

Thanks

Gordon

Hello

C++'s std library provide you with a set of algorithms and file management
routines that will aid you in your task.
You can still do your task w/o using the std by only relying on the
functions that the OS exports to the programmer.

 

[Ioannis Vranos]

I am new to C++ and have started looking at some of the basic functionality.
My aim to to create a process which can take a file (in .txt, .csv format
etc) and run various analyses (including but not limited to Sorting,
Summarizing, Duplicates etc) creating new outputs along the way.

I am aiming to do this in a Windows enviroment but expect record counts that
will exceed the limitations of Excel.

Can something of this nature be written using C++.

Of course, however for the above you would have to use some system
specific facilities, like .NET framework.






Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys

 

[Ioannis Vranos]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

Of course, however for the above you would have to use some system
specific facilities, like .NET framework.

.... only if you will want to interact with Excel, or use multithreading etc.






Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys

 

[Jimmy_B]

I am new to C++ and have started looking at some of the basic functionality.
My aim to to create a process which can take a file (in .txt, .csv format
etc) and run various analyses (including but not limited to Sorting,
Summarizing, Duplicates etc) creating new outputs along the way.

The tasks you mention correspond to the Unix programs sort, cut, and uniq.
If your goal is simply to process the data, you would not do well with
C++ - there's a lot to learn before you consider doing complicated things.
But C++ is arguably the most powerful language there is, so it's important
to learn it if you want to do serious programming. (Even if you'll never
use C++ itself, you should learn it for the concepts.)

 

[Gordon Ashford]

Hello

C++'s std library provide you with a set of algorithms and file management
routines that will aid you in your task.
You can still do your task w/o using the std by only relying on the
functions that the OS exports to the programmer.

Elias

thanks for this. Where can I find these algorithms etc to see what is
available.

Thanks

Gordon

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

thanks for this. Where can I find these algorithms etc to see what is
available.

Your friendly C++ reference will undoubtedly contain a wealth of
useful information. Hint: The header you want to look at is
<algorithm>.