The COBOL programming language's main strength is its ability to write a wide variety of data files useful for small business, including Microsoft Excel. Organizing the file as a comma-separated value ...

R imports files is when the program reads an external file into memory and uses it in code to perform different manipulations and calculations. There are two different ways of doing this - using the ...

The Rich Text Format extension refers to a document-based file format used and recognized by prominent word processing applications. However, businesses may opt to rely on the format to meet ...

I'm running some simulations using the joblib library. For that, I have some number of parameter combinations, each of which I run 100,000 times. I'd now like to write the result of each simulation to ...

Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...

In server-side JavaScript, you will most likely use the fs library for dealing with the filesystem. This library is a module in Node and other platforms like Bun. So you don’t need to install it using ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...