Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!greg From: greg@utcsri.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: stream sampler needed Message-ID: <5066@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 17:48:11 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.5066 Posted: Sun Jul 12 17:48:11 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 18:35:58 EDT References: <8233@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 18 Summary: >I was wondering if anyone had any source code to sample a continous >stream of data, throwing away (/dev/null) what wasnt sampled. Basically >i have a continous stream of data and I would like to wait until I >get a specific character, and then capture the next 13 characters. Sounds very suspicious to me. >Any suggestions? Im trying not to re-invent the wheel or do something the >long way.... > No. However, I have a program which changes all occurrences of 'n' in an odd- numbered column of the input to 'E'. I don't need it any more, but have been saving it in case anyone else needs it and doesn't want to re-invent the wheel. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Smith University of Toronto UUCP: ..utzoo!utcsri!greg Have vAX, will hack...