Re: Adding a column to an existing output file

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:48:27 -0000, csocean <csocean@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <1193831307.716077.14500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Does anyone know if there's a way to use APPEND (or something similar)
to add a column to an output file, rather than adding rows at the
end? I need it to grow sideways rather than downwards.

No, due to the way text files are laid out on disk. There's
no way to deserialise[1] it the way you want. You may be able to add fields
to a database file or an Excel spread*** by writing to the end of the
file, but that's a whole new can of worms.

With languages such as Fortran you're basically stuck with reading
the file line-by-line and writing that and the additional data out to
another file.

[1] Maybe more properly "reserialise"

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