Discarding records

Pipelines v1.6

 

.* Example by TenFiftyTwo(c).

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.* The following pipeline reads the file: example.txt, discarding every other record and
.* displays the retained records on the console.
 
pipe < &installdrive:\&installpath\Examples\Input\example.txt .* Input file.
     | specs recno 1 1-* nw                                   .* Insert the record number.
     | join /@/                                               .* Join every two records.
     | specs ws /@/ w1 1                                      .* Select upto the /@/ character.
     | console                                                .* Display on the console.