Re: How to truncat

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

I notice from your examples that the journal i.d. ends with a year. Your macro
should search for four numbers (alt-shift N is the standard-issue for those),
and replace them with four numbers and a carriage return. Then you ought to be
able to write another macro that would dump precisely what you want into a new
file.

Good luck.


Norman Bauman wrote:

> I have a file in XyWrite (3.55) which contains entries like the following,
> each one a single line ended by a carrier return. I would like to get a
> file in which each of the lines is truncated, after about 12 or 16
> characters. (The reason is that I want to sort them and find the unique
> journal abbreviations.) I have about 500 lines so it would be tedious to do
> it by hand. Is there an easy way to truncate lines like this, using simple
> functions of XyWrite, DOS utilities, or the usual programs I'm likely to
> have around? I could write a XyWrite macro to define the first few words in
> the file, and copy it to a second file, since some of the publication names
> are 3 or 4 words. Or I could have a macro start define, cursor over N
> spaces, end define, and copy it to a second file. But that sounds clunky.
> There should be an easy way.
>
> SciAm, Feb 2002, Down with the bad, up with the good, Thomas Maeder.
> Vaccines to enzymes on the cholesterol cascade raise HDL and lower LDL in
> rabbits, and are now in phase II trials.
>
> NEJM, 24 Jan 2002, 346(4), CHOP chemotherapy plus rituximab in elderly
> patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, B. Coiffier et al.
> Cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone (CHOP) were used
> with and without rituximab. The response with rituximab was significantly
> higher.
>
> JAMA, 23/30 Jan 2002, 287(4), Chelation therapy for ischemic heart disease:
> a randomized controlled trial, Merril L. Knudtson et al. "There is no
> evidence to support a beneficial effect of chelation therapy in patients
> with ischemic heart disease, stable angina, and a positive treadmill test
> for ischemia."
>
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