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Re: getting system information from a PS program

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On 2012-01-19 20:05, "SaGS" wrote:

> On Jan 19, 8:01 pm, Michael Unger <spam.to.un...@spamgourmet.com>
> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> (3) An array filled with file names, the full path and a template for
>> the file names are known; "filenameforall" doesn't help much because
>> there are many parameters depending on parts of the file name and a
>> specific order has to be observed as well.
> 
> Do a ‘filenameforall’ then post-process the file list you obtain. For
> example you can use string operators on the filenames to examine them
> and do supplemental filtering (if a filenameforall template does not
> exactly suit what you want to select), or sort the list.

I'll have to read the PLRM carefully ...

Will it be sufficient to process the string object written to the
"scratch" object by "filenameforall", saving it to an array or a
dictionary for example? (PLRM, 3rd ed, page 588)

>> ...
>> (4) Getting an array sorted (ASCII, ascending). I didn't find any
>> PostScript operator related to this issue at all.
> 
> There is no such operator, but you can write a procedure to do the
> job :)
> See, for example, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PostScript_FAQ#How_to_sort_an_array.3F
> 
>> ...

There obviously is an optimized bi-directional version of "bubble sort"
called "shaker sort" or "coctail sort" according to Wikipedia [1].

Michael


[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaker_sort>

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getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-19 19:01 +0100
  Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 11:05 -0800
    Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-21 07:03 -0800
      Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-23 17:16 +0100
        Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-24 17:33 +0100
          Re: getting system information from a PS program Odysseus <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> - 2012-01-24 18:10 -0700
            Re: getting system information from a PS program tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-01-25 04:57 -0500
            Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-25 17:39 +0100
              Re: getting system information from a PS program Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-01-25 18:08 +0100
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-26 17:52 +0100
              Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 11:27 -0800
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-26 17:55 +0100
          Re: getting system information from a PS program Marc Olschok <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-01-25 20:07 +0000
            Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-26 17:57 +0100
              Re: getting system information from a PS program Marc Olschok <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-02-02 15:46 +0000
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-02-02 18:16 +0100
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-02-02 21:52 +0100
                Re: getting system information from a PS program luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-04 20:15 -0800
    Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-23 17:26 +0100
      Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 12:18 -0800
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  Re: getting system information from a PS program bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2012-01-23 03:26 -0600
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