Fwd: Mangled submission for Quiz#17

Foster, Graham wrote ..
> Hi
> The process of submission of my quiz response seems to have been
>
> A) Excluded from your download <cry>

The "Download Solutions" tarball is built automatically when I send in  
the summary.  I didn't have your solution archived by then.

This is probably my fault.  The domain change has me monitoring four  
different locations right now (I'm shifting several domains), so I'm  
not seeing things as fast as I normally do.  This issue will resolve  
itself as I finish the transfers, hopefully very soon now.

I'm currently building Ruby Quiz 2.0.  With that, I'm going to try and  
store solutions directly in the site (if I can work out all the  
complications).  When I make that change, and port the old quizzes, I  
hope to be able to go back and include the late posts that have slipped  
through the cracks here and there.

I'm sorry I didn't have your solution up before the summary hit.

> B) Seriously mangled on your listing (UUENcoded perhaps??) <horror!>

I just went back and checked the message that came across Ruby Talk.   
Your code was attached just fine.

Let me guess, you're looking through the archives on the "blade"  
server?  I see this problem there, from time to time.  (Anyone know  
why?)  However, if you check Google, you'll see it's fine there too:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/ 
thread/8b6a6f14b69177d5/3e3043214fba9c32? 
q=[QUIZ]&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.ruby%2Fsearch%3Fq%3D[QUIZ]%26start%3 
D0%26scoring%3Dd%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#3e3043214fba9c32

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II

> Here it is in plain text version for simplicity
> Thx
> Graham
>
> ----- begin ---
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> # Ruby command line function to cleanup an input ASCII database report
> file
> # and output a file easily parsed / read into Excel
> # Specification - Ruby Quiz#17 http://www.rubyquiz.com
> <http://www.rubyquiz.com>
> # Author: Graham Foster
>
> class ReportRecord
>
>   attr_accessor :salesman, :period, :currency, :SACode, :coCode,  
> :coDesc
>   doneHeaders = false;
>
>   def initialize
>      # items which are carried over from line to line.
>      @salesman = @period = @currency = @SACode = @coCode = @coDesc =  
> '';
>      doneHeaders = false;
>   end
>
>   def itemline(catcode, desc, columns)
>     # ensure that the comma's in larger numbers are removed
>     columns.gsub!(/,/,'')
>     # now remove any spaces in the numeric fields and replace them with
> a
> comma (field seperator)
>     columns.gsub!(/\s+/,',');
>
>     # Mmmh - how to handle %% (field overflow) in an item line?
>     # Guess I'll do nothing as at least they are easy to find. By  
> skipping
> subtotals
>     # only a few of these items will be wrong.
>
>     # now check to see if this is a valid data line
>     if ((columns.split(/,/)).length > 4)
>         # this line determines the format of the printout
>         # note that text based columns are ' delimited to ensure any
> embedded , don't disrupt the file
>         # format
>         printf("%s,%s,%s,'%s','%s','%s',%s\n", @salesman, @coCode,  
> @coDesc,
> @SACode, catcode, desc.strip, columns)
>     end
>   end
>
>   def printHeaders
>       # simply output the columns headers. Obviously must be unique
>       print ("Salesman, CustomerID, CustomerName, SACode, ItemCode,
> ItemDesc, spare, QtyCurrentPeriod, QtyLastYrPeriod, QtyPctVarPeriod,
> QtyCurrentYTD, QtyLastYrYTD, QtyPctVarYTD, ValueCurrentPeriod,
> ValueLastYrPeriod, ValuePctVarPeriod, ValueCurrentYTD, ValueLastYrYTD,
> ValuePctVarYTD\n");
>   end
>
> end
>
> record = ReportRecord.new
> # just insert a header line into the output file
> record.printHeaders
>
> # need to read the input file from the command line etc
> # to make this rather less specific!!
> IO.foreach("k:/temp/period2-2002.txt") { |line|
>     case line
>
>         # Subtotaling by new salesperson
>         when /  Salesperson  (.*)/
>             record.salesman = $1.strip;
>
>         # if a line starts a new customer
>         when /^    Customer  (\d+)\s+(\w+.*)/
>             record.coCode = $1.strip;
>             record.coDesc = $2.strip;
>
>         # new SACode (seems to be a grouping of similar items)
>         when /^\s+SA Sort Code\s+(\d+.*)/
>             record.SACode = $1.strip;
>
>         #pick up which period this is
>         #- not needed currently but output for subtotaling
>         when /Sales Report\s+Period\s+(\d+\/\d+)/
>             record.period = $1.strip;
>
>         # make it explicit in the code we are NOT copying sub-totals -
> let
>         # Excel do this properly, rather than having field overflow
>         when / subtotals /
>             # do nothing
>             ;
>
>         #pickup the currency field - not needed as yet
>         when /-Qty-+\s-+(\w+)-+/
>             record.currency = $1.strip;
>
>         # this line is a real line with sales information on it
>         # looks like it is possible for item description to merge with
> 1st
> column of data
>         # hence use a fixed width field to separate description from  
> data
> columns
>         when /^([0-9A-Z][0-9A-Z.-][\d-]+)\s+(.{25})(.*)/
>             # $3 is the remainder of the line - i.e. all the  
> spreadsheet
> data
>             record.itemline($1, $2, $3);
>     end
>     }
>
> # Next part is to.. (but ran out of time...)
> # load the file into Excel. single ' wrapped round text fields,
> # comma separated field values
> # run the SUBTOTAL command in Excel (possibly via OLE??)
> # using the Salesman, Company Desc and SACode as the sub-total fields
> # this should give you an accurate list of  what was in the report