# What do you suggest?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-do-you-suggest/51002>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 8, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-do-you-suggest/51002 "2004-05-08T17:18:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ahoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@ahoo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ahoo)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-do-you-suggest/51002/1 "2004-05-08T17:18:54Z")

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]I have this small project, I want to do the easiest way (not worth to spend lots of time on it) here we go:[/size][/font]

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Basically we have a text file which has more that 100 lines and each line has 5-7 different data (name, phone…)[/size][/font]

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]I need to sort them and do some simple calculations; also I need to update some data in the text file,[/size][/font]

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]What would you suggest?[/size][/font]