Utility for checking pick 6 ticket files?

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mabman — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:16:00 GMT

I've knocked together a small Perl script to do this; there doesn't seem to be a way to attach a file to this reply, so if anyone else wants it, PM me.

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mabman — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:49:11 GMT

I potentially could, but some of my ticket files will likely exceed 65535 entries - Excel versions prior to 2007 only support 65535 rows (I don't have 2007), as does OpenOffice Calc. (I'm testing some things, I realize that volume of tickets isn't terribly practical.)

Actually I had written a stand-alone app to do this several years ago, but I think that hard drive died some time ago :(

I'm asking if something like this currently exists without me having to rewrite it, because I broke a bo... [ More ]

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Todd — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:48:27 GMT

Just build a simple Macro in an Excel spreadsheet to do it. You could probably whip it up in under an hour. Plus, Excel is great at important text files.

Utility for checking pick 6 ticket files?

mabman — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:47:00 GMT

I'm looking for a utility that will prompt for a Pick 6 winning number with bonus number, and then prompt the user to check the winning number against a specified tab/comma-delimited text file of tickets (potentially several thousand ticket combos), and output the number of total 3/4/4+B/5/5+B/6 matches (broken out), and also preferably which ticket numbers or at least line number in the text file it matched.

I've been looking around and I've found a few that mostly do this, but want the user... [ More ]