Questions tagged [tell]

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decrease counter in iterable obtained using 'enumerate' after a calling seek

I am reading a file using Python, and within the file there are sections that are enclosed with the '#' character: #HEADER1, SOME EXTRA INFO data first section 1 2 1 233 ... // THIS IS A COMMENT #HEADER2, SECOND SECTION 452 134 // ANOTHER…
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Adding clause in Prolog

I am about to write code for my project, which is to create a database in SWI-Prolog. The program should contain ADDING, DELETING, SORTING and SEARCHING entries. My problems are: I want to ADD 'runners' with capital letters. When I'm addin/deleting…
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Perl read seek tell, and text files. Too many bytes being read. Layers and newline handling

I've a Perl script which analyses a text file (can be UNIX or windows line endings) storing file offsets when it find something of interest. open(my $fh, $filename); my $groups; my %hash; while(<$fh>) { if($_ =~ /interesting/ ) { …
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python .tell() giving unexpected position in file?

I'm trying to work on a function that will change a variable in the script depending on user-input. I started to use the .tell() built-in to pinpoint the variable to be compared but, the position that it writes to is off by at least 10 bytes? #!…
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Magento "Tell a Friend " redirects to 404 page inside tab

I have showed "Tell a Friend " form in tabs on product detail page using the code below
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Pointer position does not start from 0

i want to ask about tell() method. So, have code like this op = open('data.txt', 'r') pos = op.tell() data = op.readline() key = [] while data: pos = op.tell() data = op.readline() key.append(pos) and the result key[:3] [[87], [152],…
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Telling applications to open and then to quit isn't working properly on applescript

This script is to open microsoft apps and then quit after 3 seconds tell application "Finder" set myFolder to ((startup disk as text) & "Applications:Microsoft Office 2011") as alias set myFiles to (every item of myFolder) as alias list open…
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