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[[w:Brian Kernighan|Brian Kernighan]], in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU lecture] at the University of Nottingham, described a [https://youtu.be/Sg4U4r_AgJU?t=50s problem] on which this task is based.
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;Problem:
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You are given a a data file of thousands of lines; each of three `whitespace` separated fields: a date, a one word name and the magnitude of the event.
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Example lines from the file would be lines like:
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<pre>8/27/1883 Krakatoa 8.8
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5/18/1980 MountStHelens 7.6
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3/13/2009 CostaRica 5.1</pre>
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;Task:
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* Create a program or script invocation to find all the events with magnitude greater than 6
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* Assuming an appropriate name e.g. "data.txt" for the file:
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:# Either: Show how your program is invoked to process a data file of that name.
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:# Or: Incorporate the file name into the program, (as it is assumed that the program is single use).
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<br><br>
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