(phixonline)--> -- demo\rosetta\TextProcessing2.exw with javascript_semantics -- (include version/first of next three lines only) include readings.e -- global constant lines, or: --assert(write_lines("readings.txt",lines)!=-1) -- first run, then: --constant lines = read_lines("readings.txt") include builtins\timedate.e integer all_good = 0 string fmt = "%d-%d-%d\t"&join(repeat("%f",48),'\t') sequence extset = sq_mul(tagset(24),2), -- {2,4,6,..48} curr, last for i=1 to length(lines) do string li = lines[i] sequence r = scanf(li,fmt) if length(r)!=1 then printf(1,"bad line [%d]:%s\n",{i,li}) else curr = r[1][1..3] if i>1 and curr=last then printf(1,"duplicate line for %04d/%02d/%02d\n",last) end if last = curr all_good += sum(sq_le(extract(r[1][4..$],extset),0))=0 end if end for printf(1,"Valid records %d of %d total\n",{all_good, length(lines)}) ?"done" {} = wait_key()