what language

[gerryR]

Not sure where to post this as I don't know what language it applies to
(yet)

Basically I work in IT and often have to manipulate folder structures or
large amounts of text files and am looking for the best way of automating
this procedure specifically through a programming language. I did Pascal,
and C++ in college (several years ago now) so I'm sure the basics of coding
will come back to me once I start.

Question
What language would you recommend as the best way of dealing with these
types of issues? I know dos script has the ability to do some of this but
I'd prefer a more polished approach (ie to be able to make an executable
with some sort of basic gui)

eg situation1:
We have a folder structure (100s of folders deep) with a job in the name of
every folder. We want to change the job no in all the folders.
Here we'd give the option so say point to the folder structure, replace what
with what etc

eg situation2:
We need to generate 100s of files txt/ html which are basically the same
code with some a couple of minor changes.
Here we'd say combine this (paste the 1st bit of code), with 1 line from
this (link to a txt file with a list of usernames on each line) and this
(paste the 2nd bit of code) and each file it generates would take the next
line from the txt file and the next one and so on.

Sorry for the long post, I know the egs are specific but in general working
with files and folders would come up alot. Obviously I could migrate to
more ambitious projects once I improved.

thanks for any feedback
gerryR

[Ciaran O''Donnell]

If you have done c++ before than I recommend C#. At least the syntaxt will be
the same. If you don't mind looking at VB then the 'My' namespace in VB.NET
will make things simpler for a newbie as it shortcuts lots of things for you.

Ciaran O'Donnell

"gerryR" wrote:

Not sure where to post this as I don't know what language it applies to
(yet)

Basically I work in IT and often have to manipulate folder structures or
large amounts of text files and am looking for the best way of automating
this procedure specifically through a programming language. I did Pascal,
and C++ in college (several years ago now) so I'm sure the basics of coding
will come back to me once I start.

Question
What language would you recommend as the best way of dealing with these
types of issues? I know dos script has the ability to do some of this but
I'd prefer a more polished approach (ie to be able to make an executable
with some sort of basic gui)

eg situation1:
We have a folder structure (100s of folders deep) with a job in the name of
every folder. We want to change the job no in all the folders.
Here we'd give the option so say point to the folder structure, replace what
with what etc

eg situation2:
We need to generate 100s of files txt/ html which are basically the same
code with some a couple of minor changes.
Here we'd say combine this (paste the 1st bit of code), with 1 line from
this (link to a txt file with a list of usernames on each line) and this
(paste the 2nd bit of code) and each file it generates would take the next
line from the txt file and the next one and so on.

Sorry for the long post, I know the egs are specific but in general working
with files and folders would come up alot. Obviously I could migrate to
more ambitious projects once I improved.

thanks for any feedback
gerryR

[gerryR]

thanks for the reply Ciaran. I like the idea of VB as I imagine creating
the GUI would be easy, I can't even imagine how one would go about that in
C++, we never got that far in college. How about Visual C++? does this
merge the two?

Sorry for the noob questions, theres just too many options out there.
thanks again
gerry
"Ciaran O''Donnell" <Ci************@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in
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If you have done c++ before than I recommend C#. At least the syntaxt will
be
the same. If you don't mind looking at VB then the 'My' namespace in
VB.NET
will make things simpler for a newbie as it shortcuts lots of things for
you.

Ciaran O'Donnell

"gerryR" wrote:

>Not sure where to post this as I don't know what language it applies to
(yet)

Basically I work in IT and often have to manipulate folder structures or
large amounts of text files and am looking for the best way of automating
this procedure specifically through a programming language. I did
Pascal,
and C++ in college (several years ago now) so I'm sure the basics of
coding
will come back to me once I start.

Question
What language would you recommend as the best way of dealing with these
types of issues? I know dos script has the ability to do some of this
but
I'd prefer a more polished approach (ie to be able to make an executable
with some sort of basic gui)

eg situation1:
We have a folder structure (100s of folders deep) with a job in the name
of
every folder. We want to change the job no in all the folders.
Here we'd give the option so say point to the folder structure, replace
what
with what etc

eg situation2:
We need to generate 100s of files txt/ html which are basically the same
code with some a couple of minor changes.
Here we'd say combine this (paste the 1st bit of code), with 1 line from
this (link to a txt file with a list of usernames on each line) and this
(paste the 2nd bit of code) and each file it generates would take the
next
line from the txt file and the next one and so on.

Sorry for the long post, I know the egs are specific but in general
working
with files and folders would come up alot. Obviously I could migrate to
more ambitious projects once I improved.

thanks for any feedback
gerryR

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"gerryR" <ge**********@NOSPAMgerryr.comwrote in message
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thanks for the reply Ciaran. I like the idea of VB as I imagine creating
the GUI would be easy, I can't even imagine how one would go about that in
C++, we never got that far in college. How about Visual C++? does this
merge the two?

Sorry for the noob questions, theres just too many options out there.
thanks again
gerry
"Ciaran O''Donnell" <Ci************@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in
message news:AF**********************************@microsof t.com...

>If you have done c++ before than I recommend C#. At least the syntaxt
will be
the same. If you don't mind looking at VB then the 'My' namespace in
VB.NET
will make things simpler for a newbie as it shortcuts lots of things for
you.

Ciaran O'Donnell

"gerryR" wrote:

>>Not sure where to post this as I don't know what language it applies to
(yet)

Basically I work in IT and often have to manipulate folder structures or
large amounts of text files and am looking for the best way of
automating
this procedure specifically through a programming language. I did
Pascal,
and C++ in college (several years ago now) so I'm sure the basics of
coding
will come back to me once I start.

Question
What language would you recommend as the best way of dealing with these
types of issues? I know dos script has the ability to do some of this
but
I'd prefer a more polished approach (ie to be able to make an executable
with some sort of basic gui)

eg situation1:
We have a folder structure (100s of folders deep) with a job in the name
of
every folder. We want to change the job no in all the folders.
Here we'd give the option so say point to the folder structure, replace
what
with what etc

eg situation2:
We need to generate 100s of files txt/ html which are basically the same
code with some a couple of minor changes.
Here we'd say combine this (paste the 1st bit of code), with 1 line from
this (link to a txt file with a list of usernames on each line) and this
(paste the 2nd bit of code) and each file it generates would take the
next
line from the txt file and the next one and so on.

Sorry for the long post, I know the egs are specific but in general
working
with files and folders would come up alot. Obviously I could migrate to
more ambitious projects once I improved.

thanks for any feedback
gerryR

[Chris Dunaway]

gerryR wrote:

thanks for the reply Ciaran. I like the idea of VB as I imagine creating
the GUI would be easy, I can't even imagine how one would go about that in
C++, we never got that far in college. How about Visual C++? does this
merge the two?

While you can create a GUI in Visual C++, i don't think it is as easy
as VB.Net or C#, but I'm not very familiar with it.

As far as VB.Net or C#, the process of creating a GUI is the same.
Neither one is easier than the other.

As to what language, since you are familiar with C++ syntax, you would
probably be more comfortable with C#.

Good Luck

[RobinS]

Not Visual C++, C#, which is kind of like C++ on .Net medication.

I'd do it in VB, because it's easier -- you don't have all those
pesky curly braces and semi-colons, and it's not case-sensitive.
But if you've done C++ before, C# might be easier to comprehend.

You'll just have to look at both of them and decide which one
looks better to you.

Robin S.
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"gerryR" <ge**********@NOSPAMgerryr.comwrote in message
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thanks for the reply Ciaran. I like the idea of VB as I imagine creating
the GUI would be easy, I can't even imagine how one would go about that in
C++, we never got that far in college. How about Visual C++? does this
merge the two?

Sorry for the noob questions, theres just too many options out there.
thanks again
gerry
"Ciaran O''Donnell" <Ci************@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in
message news:AF**********************************@microsof t.com...

>If you have done c++ before than I recommend C#. At least the syntaxt
will be
the same. If you don't mind looking at VB then the 'My' namespace in
VB.NET
will make things simpler for a newbie as it shortcuts lots of things for
you.

Ciaran O'Donnell

"gerryR" wrote:

>>Not sure where to post this as I don't know what language it applies to
(yet)

Basically I work in IT and often have to manipulate folder structures or
large amounts of text files and am looking for the best way of
automating
this procedure specifically through a programming language. I did
Pascal,
and C++ in college (several years ago now) so I'm sure the basics of
coding
will come back to me once I start.

Question
What language would you recommend as the best way of dealing with these
types of issues? I know dos script has the ability to do some of this
but
I'd prefer a more polished approach (ie to be able to make an executable
with some sort of basic gui)

eg situation1:
We have a folder structure (100s of folders deep) with a job in the name
of
every folder. We want to change the job no in all the folders.
Here we'd give the option so say point to the folder structure, replace
what
with what etc

eg situation2:
We need to generate 100s of files txt/ html which are basically the same
code with some a couple of minor changes.
Here we'd say combine this (paste the 1st bit of code), with 1 line from
this (link to a txt file with a list of usernames on each line) and this
(paste the 2nd bit of code) and each file it generates would take the
next
line from the txt file and the next one and so on.

Sorry for the long post, I know the egs are specific but in general
working
with files and folders would come up alot. Obviously I could migrate to
more ambitious projects once I improved.

thanks for any feedback
gerryR