Thread: Converting integer data from text file

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    Converting integer data from text file

    I have a data conversion question. I'm trying to read a very large space-delimited .txt file (almost 1 million records) and convert the data into a different format, but I can't figure out how best to do it. I don't have much experience reading data from a file.

    The data is stored like this...

    Code:
     
    1 1 
    2 
    3 2 2 4 2 2 2 3 3 
    5 
    1 
    6 
    1 1 
    6 
    6 7 7 7 6 6 8 8 8 8 
    6 9 4 4 4 10 3 10 5 10 4 4 4
    and I want it to convert to this...

    Code:
     
    1
    2
    2 3 4
    5
    1
    6
    1
    6
    6 7 8
    3 4 5 6 9 10
    where the existing entries for each record appear in ascending order with no dupilcates. All of the entries are integers between 1 and 17. Each line is a separate record.

    I need the new output to be stored in a new .txt file.

    I'm sure there's some SQL commands that would probably be easier, but I'm a new programmer and don't have experience with anything outside of C++.

    Any suggestions you could give would be greatly appreciated.

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    and the Hat of Guessing tabstop's Avatar
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    If each line is independent of every other line, then you shouldn't try to process more than one line at a time.

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    1. Read a line from the file.
    2. Parse individual numbers out of the line and insert them into a set<int> container.
    3. Output contents of set<int> container to new file.
    4. Rinse, repeat.
    5. ...
    6. Profit!


    The set container will automagically take care of removing duplicates and sort from least to greatest for you.
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