arranging-text-in-horizontal-columns.rex

Pipelines v2.1

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 **** Top of file ****
 1
 2 /* The following pipeline reads the file: winston.txt; selects the first 8 words of
 3 each record and aligns them in columns 12 characters wide. */
 4
 5 Address Rxpipe
 6
 7 'pipe < &installdrive:\&installpath\examples\input\winston.txt',
 8 '| strip trailing', /* Trim off whitespace. */
 9 '| locate', /* Discard null records. */
 10 '| specs w1-8 1 /@/ nw', /* Select words 1 - 8 and append the '@'. */
 11 '| split', /* Split into individual words. */
 12 '| specs 1-* 1.12', /* Make the record twelve bytes long. */
 13 '| join until 1 str /@/', /* Join records back together. */
 14 '| cons' /* Display on the console. */
 15
 16 Say 'Hit Enter to close..'
 17 Parse Pull
 18
 19 Exit 0
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Console output

 
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 1 It was a bright cold day in April,
 2 Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast
 3 wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of
 4 quickly enough  to prevent a swirl of gritty
 5 The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old
 6 coloured poster, too large for indoor display, has
 7 depicted simply an enormous face, more than a
 8 about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and
 9 Winston made for the stairs.
 10 It  was no use trying the lift. Even
 11 and at present the electric current was cut
 12 part of the economy drive in preparation for
 13 flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and
 14 right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on
 15 opposite the lift shaft, the  poster with the
 16 It was one of those pictures which are
 17 about when you move.
 18 BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath
 19 Hit Enter to close..