Pyrpolizer wrote:Get Real! wrote:
1)So why don’t you parse this text file? Can’t be that hard… 2)post a screen-full of it so we can see its contents.
As for the best language for you… 3)it depends on whether you just want to be fiddling with other people’s file headers or whether you want to write your OWN backgammon game and create the “.PP” file format!
To tinker with file headers you only need C++ as it can easily handle data structures and string parsing. These are the only two things you need to extract header info so I can't understand why you're not happy with that.
But… if you want to write your own backgammon game, get into Web Apps!
1)Who said i didn't? I was just answering your question to provide you a quick technical description of one of my recent projects.
2)Full screen of the parsed output is impossible..Like I said it produces thousands of lines. I will upload one tomorrow.
3)I already said that in this particular case the issue was for converting from one file format (from the parsed file) to another (the *.mat file format). No I am not interested to write any software that is already available.
I am only writing solutions to specific issues mainly for my own use that sometimes might also interest a limited number of people .Most have to do with tables , calculations, graphs, and text manipulation.
When someone says a "screenfull of text" they’re talking about 50-80 lines; how many lines can the average screen display at any given moment anyway?
But if you’ve already successfully parsed this text file then there’s no need for me to look into this.
So what’s your next requirement after you’ve parsed it? Did you want to also display the moves and you’re stuck?
Don’t get me wrong… I’m just trying to figure out why you would suggest learning a new language given that C++ can easily handle data structures and string parsing, and you've already done all that you say...
Are you stuck somewhere?
But anyway, if you want a general purpose language that doesn't need to be compiled then I will agree with GR... go with Javascript. Don't go into node.js or anything like that now. Start with just Javascript, HTML and CSS. With those 3 technologies (+ maybe a few libraries and frameworks to speed up your development) you can build web apps that anybody can run from anywhere. Not everybody has Excel but everything has a web browser, so anybody can run your apps from anywhere without even the need to install anything. And if you later want to package your app to make it run like a native application on windows, iOS, Android etc, there are ways to do it. Another language that is quite popular and is considered to be very nice is Python, but I don't have much experience with it. If you decide to go with Javascript let me know if you need some learning resources.
