[BLDG-SIM] eQuest: macro for extracting data from a sim file

Brandon Nichols BrandonN at Hargis.biz
Mon Nov 5 07:21:25 PST 2007


Awk is also a good choice, here's an editorial comparison of Awk vs. SED, with a link to tutorials for each:

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.shell/2004-08/0405.html

Awk is a programming language with arithmetic operators, array handling etc., SED is essentially batch application of regular expressions.  

Given the platform independence of regular expressions, SED is my cup of tea.  But as Jeff states the case, Awk would be an excellent tool for a data extraction task -- back in the dark ages of DOS, I used Awk years before learning SED to strip the colors from AutoCAD DXF files.

Brandon



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Jessica. 

We use AWK, which can be obtained from Gnu software for a modest donation (I.e. GAWK). Its incredibly powerful, and has a long history from its origin at Bell labs as a unix toolkit. There are several good books on AWK, including one by its creators: Aho, Weinberger and Kernigan.

This work well on the FORTRAN-formatted output from DOE-2. 

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Subject: [BLDG-SIM] eQuest: macro for extracting data from a sim file

I need to extract data from a sim file. I have over 1600 runs to make and need only one piece of data from the SIM file. Has anyone put together a macro like this before? Examples...

Thanks, Jessica 


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