Re: [Tutor] Logical Structure of Snippet

2011-05-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 24 May 2011 06:53:30 am Spyros Charonis wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm trying to read some sequence files and modify them to a > particular [...] You should almost never modify files in place, especially if you need to insert text. It *might*, sometimes, be acceptable to modify files in pl

Re: [Tutor] Logical Structure of Snippet

2011-05-23 Thread Alan Gauld
"Spyros Charonis" wrote P1; ICA1_HUMAN AAEVDTG. (A very long sequence of letters) I must extract one of the data fields from the database (done this) and place it in the sequence file (structure shown above). The relevant database fields go like: tt; ICA1_HUMAN Description tt; I