Limit Lines of Output

[Dave Angel]

On 06/25/2013 04:37 PM, Bryan Britten wrote:
> Joel -
>
> I don't want to send it to a text file because it's just meant to serve as a reference for the user to get an idea of what words are mentioned. The words being analyzed are responses to a survey questions and the primary function of this script is to serve as a text analytics program. Exporting the output to a text file would just be an unnecessary/undesirable step for the user.
>

Your subject says you want to limit the lines of output.  So after 25 
lines, quit the program.  Not too hard.

At the other extreme, your user wants to be able to scroll up or down 
within the hundreds of lines, seeing 25 at a time, and wants to be able 
to search for particular substrings, optionally with case-insensitivity, 
and wants to be able to sort them by some criteria, or copy/paste some 
portion elsewhere.

Write a spec that limits what you want, or you'll never finish the 
project.  And accept that if you want too much, you'll end up writing 
the equivalent of a text editor before you're done.

-- 
DaveA