A block of arbitrary information, or resource for storing information, accessible by the string-based name or path. Files are available to computer programs and are usually based on some kind of persistent storage.
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Generate random 10% of file to be used in testing with Ruby
I'm new to Ruby, but not to programming. I just need a simple script that, given a text file, will pull out around 10% of the lines at random. Below is what I came up with based upon a Python script ...
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Manipulating filenames using Python
I was tasked with creating a script to be able to rename some files and then move them into different folders based on a code in the filename.
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Importing tab delimited file into array
I am needing to import a tab delimited text file that has 11 columns and an unknown number of rows (always minimum 3 rows).
I would like to import this text file as an array and be able to call data ...
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How to search for a word in a sorted text file efficiently?
I want to write my own program to search for a word in a sorted text file. In the text file each word is in one line. I want to write this myself because I did not find any simple program (without ...
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SFTP JSCH security
My code below works fine (uploading files to a server directory), but as per my servers rules, I'm required to log in to SFTP using my main server username and password, obviously a little bit of a ...
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Making a list from user input - follow-up
I have made the changes that people have suggested from my previous question. I want to try and make it even tidier if possible. What can I change to make it more optimized? My ...
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Making a list from user input
I have wrote a program that lets the user open up there text file that would look something like this:
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It would then let the user enter a name for ...
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Write int, short int or any integer value in a file in binary form using fputc
I am trying to write binary values in a file using fputc. In my case it is a short int.
The file must be opened in "w" mode.
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Categorizing utilities into modules [closed]
I have two classes in my program, the one is PropertiesUtils and the other one FileUtils.
This is the general structure of ...
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proper way of handling exception while reading user input from file
I am parsing a text file (UTF-8) and checking for several conditions that need to be satisfied for the code to be happy. If not, then there is no point to continue and the program should die.
At the ...
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Keyfile Generator
This is a Java program that generates a random keyfile (for OTP, for example).
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Count number of words in a text file
Is this a good approach or is there some other solution that I am not aware of?
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Executing a file through a swing button
I am making a Swing application for light local database management and I have the button Run XAMPP.
When that button is pressed this code is executed:
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Text file searching using SQL
I have the need to search a directory containing 1000+ files on remote servers where I only have access to SQL Server Management Studio and Explorer. I have written the below SQL statement which does ...
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File editing program
I have written a Java class to replace text in file. The file contains database configurations and is as follows:
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Fastest Windows script to move files from one did to a network dir
I wrote a script that moves files older than two days over to a network share (via scheduled task). Windows Task Scheduler doesn't seem to like the script so much, but it works well by itself.
Is ...
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Read from a file and pick a random line
I've been learning Java lately and had some great feedback from the previous threads (hangman and guess a number games).
I was challenged by a user to try to get this code done, so I'm posting it here ...
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Perl file sorting script
This is my first ever real 100% self made perl script, I'd like to know how I can improve it.
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Reading a file and storing the contents in an array
This is my code for reading a file with a delimiter. Any suggestions to help improve my code efficiency?
I am not satisfied with using array data structure. Can any other data structure be used ...
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Reading text from 2 files
I've got 2 simple text files:
besede.txt
To je vsebina datoteke z besedami. V njej so razlicne besede ki imajo lahko pomen ali pa tudi ne.
skrivno.txt
4 3 19 2 3 2 4 3
I wrote a ...
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Checking if file is within a directory for security
I have a security manager I'm writing for a Java program, and within the checkRead method, I wish to only allow reads to files within a given directory.
The basis of it is that it will get a ...
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Python and Exception Handling IOError [closed]
I'm trying to work with exception handling by displaying "No Such File" when the file doesn't exist. I need to use a try statement.
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User input and reading contents of file
For full disclosure: this is an assignment for my programming class and I just want tips or advice on some of the code.
Assignment details just for background information purposes:
Write a ...
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Project Euler #22 - Name scores
I have written code in C++ 11 and check output with Project Euler site, and it is correct. I am not showing output, just to keep it secret, at least from my end.
Please review my C++ 11 code.
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Console command tool
I have created a little console tool that simply does commands that you enter.
The commands are stored in a txt file. Right now I only got 2 commands: getTime and ...
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File transfer over a stream
I am doing some programming on the side and would just like to know if I'm going in the right direction with my code.
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Optimizing a function to read bigger files in php
I have the following function that reads data from a csv file and it is supposed to take in data which is from a certain certain timeinterval in this case 07:59 and saves them up in another csv file. ...
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Reading a config file
I am relatively new to Perl and would like to check that the code I am writing docent have any major flaws in it or any bad practices.
This is a fairly simple sub but one that gets used often. Seems ...
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Fast way of searching for a string in a text file
I have written this code to search for a string in a .txt file. Is it possible to optimize the code so that it searches for the string in fastest manner possible? ...
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Function that converts file eol's
I've been unable to find a PHP function that will convert eol in files. This is what I have so far. It works, no errors.
Your educated opinions, thoughts, improvements, potential bugs and ...
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Best practice to upload files on server using Rest Service
I am using building REST services for file upload on the server. Here is some code of that
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Sorting a set of numbers in a file using Java BitSet
I have implemented a program to sort a file consisting of numbers. The program generates a different output file with all numbers sorted in it. I have implemented this program using BitSet. I wanted ...
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Are these file handling functions safe?
I'm using these 2 functions to handle file input/output and would like to know if there's anything that should be changed.
For content retrieval, enough space is allocated and the file content is ...
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How to ensure file exists, and get the absolutePath? [closed]
I need to:
create an object with the absolute path of a file
ensure the file exists
My approach is to create a new Path and call toFile to make sure it exists - ...
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Class for file creation and directory validation
After reading some texts regarding creation of files under Python, I've decided to create this class which creates a new file on a directory, and creating a backup on the other directory if the file ...
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Updating a file through C++ streams
The following code is my answer to a Stack Overflow question:
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Client server application for file transfer
I have an application for transferring files from clients to a server. A client opens, transfers a file to the server and closes. The server is open and may receive multiple files. Also, when ...
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Universal File Duplicator
I made a simple Universal-File-Duplicator (Example: make 125 duplicates of one file).
Very useful if you want to fill a whole USB flash drive or an old harddisk with an important file (Example: ...
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Java PrintWriter not printing data to file [closed]
This program is compiling just fine, and the variables and such seem to be passing through. However, when I open the text file there is no data. Can anyone point me in the right direction or nudge ...
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Perl Code Improvements - reading CSV file
I am very new to Perl, but quite pleased with my short introduction to it!
So, scenario is I have a number of text files (they are reports from a financial system) stored in a directory. Each report ...
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Secure image upload class
I am new to Code Review and PHP.
Last night I made the below image uploading class. It was the first time I made a file uploader to be used on a real site, so I thought I would share it here and on ...
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Improve my copying of a CSV file
I need to merge some large csv files but I feel that the way I am doing it is not optmized. It gets a number of csvfiles and creates one
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Writing integer to binary file
I wrote a python function that writes a integer to a file in binary form. But are there any ways that I can reduce the number of steps, is there a more efficient way to write a integer to a file?
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HTML5 File API Demo
I recently wrote a small demo that allows users to send and receive files from an HTML5 Javascript application. It's all client-side. I thought this would be a good place to get feedback about what ...
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Python Coding improvements, Client Server Apps [duplicate]
I have written the following bits of code. Feel free to take and use/abuse.
I am fairly new to python coding although I have been coding on and off for 30ish years, and I am sure I am writing python ...
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Reading and writing an unknown character into an appropriately named file
I would like to refactor this code a bit further and make it better and more generic.
As of right now, it is doing what I want it to do (reading a list of URL's, splitting the query and the ampersand ...
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opening a text file and building a dictionary
Need to write a function that takes an open file as the only parameter and returns a dictionary that maps a string to a list of strings and integers.
each line in the text will have a username, ...
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Word analysis on input from a file
How do I improve the below code, which takes input from a file and does some word analysis? I find a lot of redundancy in it. I want to know a better way of implementing it.
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C++ File handling, inserts ÿ character while copying contents [closed]
[Please don't comment on using Turbo C++. I know that it's obsolete but we are taught this way only.]
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