Let me reserve some terms? I would like, for instance, to use the term "line" very narrowly in the rest of this. To remind us both that I am doing this, I will add "RT" to the end of the word, to flag it as a Reserved Term.
The pages these Reserved Terms are used narrowly on are...
Overview of the subject of processing LineRTs from SourceRTs
In several related pages I've tried to use the following very narrowly. (Not all of the terms are used in early pages in that set of related pages. SourceRT and LineRT are important from an early stage.)
As used in these pages, the noun "group" will have it's usual meaning. "Dogs" is a "group" of mammals. "The sixth grade" (USA) "year six" (UK) are "groups" in education. "The pharmacuticals" are a "group" of stocks that some investors concentrate on.
However, in these pages, GroupRT will have a more specific meaning. It will mean a group as defined by a specific part of the LineRt being processed.
In these essays, a LineRT will be a string of characters from some source that is organized so that it is easy to collect such strings one at a time. They may or may not be of constant lengths. The characters may or may not be printable... but while all that follows could be used equally well on data that contained non-printable characters, I usually work with the simpler case, and everything in this essay will too.
Perhaps a bit tautologically, a SourceRT is anything that can supply LineRTs!
An ordinary text file is a good example of a collection of LinesRT on a SourceRT. (The physical SourceRT may be a "memory card" or hard drive or similar. "The file" could also be called "the SourceRT" of the lines.
The lazy way of dealing with text files is to move them to a memo (in the sense that Lazarus uses that term), and "use" them from there. If you do that, the memo will be your "SourceRT" in "everyday" terms, with the original textfile the ulimate SourceRT, if you need to think of it that way. (Me? I realize that there are many SourceRTs, and have no trouble "knowing" which one is the relevant one in a given context.)
Please get in touch if you discover flaws in this page. Please mention the page's URL. (wywtk.com/lut/3linesfrmsrc/3linesfs-rts.htm).
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Unlike the clever Google search engine, this one merely looks for the words you type, so....
* Spell them properly.
* Don't bother with "How do I get rich?" That will merely return pages with "how", "do", "I"....
Please also note that I have three other sites, and that this search will not include them. They have their own search buttons.
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