[Tutor] Reading every 5th line

[bob gailer]

On 8/8/2010 8:04 AM, nitin chandra wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am to make a small programme for a friend of mine
> where i am to start reading from 14th (string) from a file and then
> read every 5th row.
>
> ie.
>
> in 1st read it reads the 14 row in a File, write to an OUTPUT-1 file
> Next reads 19th row, write to the OUTPUT-1 file
> then 24th row,... so on.
>
> and the second loop does is
>
> reads the 15th line as the first line from same input file and write
> to OUTPUT-2 file
> next reads 20th line / row, write to the OUTPUT-2 file
>
>
> I have tried various ways but some how i am ONLY able to do i simple
> read from one file and write to another.
>    

Please show us the attempts you have made.
> There are 3024 rows / lines PER file

That is irrelevant.

>   and there are 24 such file I need to run the programme on.
>    

Several unknowns here. Do you process one file at a time? Where does the 
output from the other files go?

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