<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Francis P. Boscoe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fpb01@health.state.ny.us">fpb01@health.state.ny.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font>Given a simple text file of departments, capitals, longitude and latitude separated by commas</font><br>
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<font>Ahuachapán,Ahuachapán,-89.8450,13.9190 </font><br>
<font>Cabañas,Sensuntepeque,-88.6300,13.8800</font><br>
<font>Cuscatlán,Cojutepeque,-88.9333,13.7167</font><br>
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<font>I would like to know to how to read in the file and then access arbitary rows in the file, so that I can print a line such as: </font><br>
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<font>The capital of Cabañas is Sensuntepeque</font><br>
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<font>while preserving the non-English characters</font><br>
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<font>now, for example, I get</font><br>
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<font>Cabañas</font><br>
<br></p></div></blockquote><br></div>I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're not yet comfortable with Unicode. It's all right - we've all been there, and sometimes I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about it - but you owe it to yourself to get at least a bit more comfortable with encodings, character sets, etc.<br>
Joel Spolsky - Joel on Software - wrote a pretty good intro a few years ago. It's geared toward HTML, but the concepts are the same regardless of language. It's a fun read, and informative - I recommend it.<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/12/oracle_netra_t4_timesten/"></a><br>
<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html">www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html</a><br>