From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T06:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How to merge two files like the following with the XML parser

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My humble approach :) (just while waiting for the guys with the injects)

f1 = File.new("File1.txt").readlines
f2 = File.new("File2.txt").readlines

result = []
f2.each{|x| x.each_index{|y| result << [f1[y], x[y]]}}

puts result.inspect


so long...
manveru

Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2005 22:52 schrieb karenmiddleol@yahoo.com:
> I have two text files.
>
> I want to merge them together as follows:
>
> ================================
> File1.txt
>
> SCREEN,
> PROGRAM,
> FIELD1,
> VALUE1,
> FIELD2,
> VALUE2,
> FIELD3,
> VALUE3,
> ================================
>
>
> ================================
> File2.txt
>
>
> S1,P1,F11,V11,F12,V12,F13,V13
> S2,P2,F21,V21,F22,V22,F23,V23
> ....
> ....
>
> ================================
>
> Now when I merge the two files together I want the following file:
>
> ================================
> File3.txt
>
>
> SCREEN, S1
> PROGRAM,P1
> FIELD1,F11
> VALUE1,V11
> FIELD2,F12
> VALUE2,V12
> FIELD3,F13
> VALUE3,V13
> SCREEN, S2
> PROGRAM,P2
> FIELD1,F21
> VALUE1,V21
> FIELD2,F22
> VALUE2,V22
> FIELD3,F23
> VALUE3,V23
>
>
> =======================================================
>
>
> I want a generic script that can merge file1.txt and file2.txt to
> generate file3.txt
>
>
> I want a script that can take a template of File1.txt as follows:
>
>
> SCREEN, <<S>>
> PROGRAM, <<P>>
> FIELD1, <<C1>>
> VALUE1, <<C2>>
> FIELD2, <<C3>>
> VALUE2, <<C4>>
> FIELD3, <<C5>>
> VALUE3, <<C6>>
>
>
> =======================================================
>
>
> and the file2.txt to identify what goes to <<S>>, <<P>>
> in the following form:
>
> ================================
> File2.txt
> <<P>>,<<S>>,<<C1>>,<<C2>>,<<C3>>,<<C4>>,<<C5>>,<<C6>>
> S1,P1,F11,V11,F12,V12,F13,V13
> S2,P2,F21,V21,F22,V22,F23,V23
> ....
> ....
>
> =======================================================
>
>
> So I want a generic XML parser based utility that can accept three
> arguments for file1, file2 and file3 and can merge the template of
> file1 to the contents in file2 to be substituted in file1 to generate
> file3.
>
>
> Appreciate if any of you can kindly share code to get the  XML parser
> to do this which most of you would have faced with such a similar
> problem.
>
> It is almost like a mail merge but the data volumes can be large and it
> is not practical to use MS Word.
>
> To keep it simple I want the whole merge process in XML parser.
>
> Appreciate if you could kindly share how to get this done with the XML
> parser.
>
>
> Thanks
> Karen

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