I just am not sure which part I'm not adequately explaining

You tell us in great detail what you are doing to solve some problem you haven't told us anything about. I can't really evaluate your logic because I have no context for it - there is no big picture to provide that context.

I don't want any more "how", I want "why". For example, this is the first time you tell us the yes/no column isn't important: it is related to some version of "how". If we had some "why" we could then understand we were free to ignore the yes/no stuff.

In general don't think in terms of file lines, think in terms of related data and how you might best store that for later testing. In this case it looks like you want to know what set of schedules a particular actor was involved in. That information is contained in records in the schedules file so you need to parse those records. Look back at my last sample code with that in mind and see where it gets you.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Re^9: nesting loops help? by GrandFather
in thread nesting loops help? by shadowfox

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