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CHMM macro, introduced here, changes characters of a data file
to uppercase or to lowercase according to the user's choice.
The contents of the orginal file are written into a new file,
where all characters are either in uppercase or in lowercase.
The original data file remains unchanged.
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Due to the functionality of IDEAScript each line of the new file
will start and end with a quotation mark (").
As a result each file of the new file is two characters longer than the original line,
and the file size is bigger respectively.
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The macro is made with IDEA 2002.
It is possible that IDEAScript of newer IDEA versions are not able to execute the macro properly.
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Running the macro [1].
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After unzipping the contents of CMM.ZIP, demo version of CHMM, to a folder
start IDEA.
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Select: Tools - Macros - Run..
In the dialog box select file type '*.ise' (a compiled macro)
and thereafter select CMM.ise as shown in picture 1.
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You are first shown contents of 'cmm.txt' (not shown here).
Click 'OK' after reading it. After that you are shown dialog in picture 2.
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We have a data file 'G98.sal' consisting of
10.990 rows, each 86 characters long. We open it with notepad and see
that all of the characters of the file are uppercase
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We want to change the characters of 'G98.sal' to lowercase.
In order to accomplish this task we select 'Select to lowercase' option
and click 'Select a File'.
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Next, we select 'G98.sal' and click 'Open'.
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We are asked to select,
whether to change the characters of the file to uppercase
or to lowercase.
This time we select the latter option and click 'OK' (picture 3).
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The macro makes the change and
displays a message [3] telling that
a new file has been created. Its number of lines is 500.
Number of lines in the original file: 10990.
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NOTE! Because the macro is a demo version, only 500 first lines
of the original file were processed.
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Finally we check the new file: [4]
Again we use notepad.
We can see that all of the characters of the new file are lowercase,
and the contents of the original file are in quotation marks.
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Download
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You can download demo version of CHMM (CMM) here [5].
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[1] See also the instructions in the 'readme_cmm.txt' file. |
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[4] The zip file 'cmm.zip' contains files 'CMM.ise', 'cmm.txt' and 'readme_cmm.txt'.
NOTE! If you make any change in 'cmm.txt' the macro cannot be run.
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