From: porkchop@invalid.foo   
      
   On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 04:38:53 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:   
      
   > So I *still* don't know what tinybase does. It's like you're   
   > trying to hide it.   
      
   No, not hiding anything, just moving slowly, learning as I go,   
   trying to do the right thing. At any rate...   
      
   Bearing in mind I'm defining my own terminology, tinybase   
   (which is really only a working title & could change)   
   searches for tagged blocks. Tagged blocks take this form:   
      
   tags: 1998, analytics, sales, frank j. smith   
      
      line 1   
      line 2   
      line nth...   
      
   So if one invoked tinybase as...   
      
   tinybase -q 'shuf*' *.tbf   
      
   Here, the result is...   
      
   FILE:  data/awk.tbf   
   LINE:  94   
   BLOCK: 6   
   QUERY: shuf*   
   MATCH: shuffle   
      
   TAGS: shuffle, awk, code, [numlines]   
      
   001 # Fisher/Yates shuffle   
   002   
   003 function shuffle(card_array, number_of_cards, x, y, tmpvar) {   
   004   
   005   srand()   
   006   
   007   for (y = number_of_cards; y > 1; y--) {   
   008     x             = int((y-1) * rand()) + 1   
   009     tmpvar        = card_array[x]   
   010     card_array[x] = card_array[y]   
   011     card_array[y] = tmpvar   
   012   }   
   013   
   014 }   
      
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