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Old 05-27-2009
TehOne TehOne is offline
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Calculate total sum from a file
The file content is dynamic and using this format:

Code:
name1 number1
name2 number2
name3 number3
name4 number4
....................
Need a smooth way to calculate the sum of all the numbers in that file (number1 + number2 + number3 + number4........ = total )