Duplicate files....one "Chapter 1.pages" one "Chapter 1" on iCloud

I'm so tired of having to work so hard to get a good workflow going.
Tim Cook should sit everyone down around a table and ask, "What do we want iWork to do, what do we want iCloud to do, and what do we want them to do together?" Then after everyone agrees, he should just say, "OK, make it happen, cap'n."
OK, so here's today's issue:
I'm working on a book, and have it broken down by chapters. I was trying to work on it on my iPhone, iPad, and iMac, but it got to be too big a PITA to do anything on a phone-sized screen on the train, so I quit trying. Now I have a laptop, and am trying to get a workflow going.
Here's the question:
Now, for some reason, I have 2 versions of each document, some have the extension .pages, and some have none. They're different sizes too. I'm going to have to sort through them all and consolidate. So, when I do save them, which version should I put in iCloud, with or without the extension? I'm not using it on the iPhone, but want to be able to.

Sounds like the ripped tracks might have gotten matched to the wrong tracks in the store. Turn on the iCloud Status column by pulling down View > View Options, select "icloud status" and click OK. Find that album in your iTunes library and see what the status of all the tracks are. If they are all "matched" you can see what they are matched to by downloading them. To not lose any metadata it might be easier to create a new library.
1. Quit iTunes.
2. Re-launch it while holding down the Option key. Click "new library."
3. Enable iTunes Match on the new, empty library.
4. Find the "matched" album in question, highlight all the tracks, right-click (or Control+click) and choose download.
5. After the tracks are finished downloading play them and see if they are the right tracks. If they are not report the mis-matches to iTunes Store support.

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Hello rmunsey,
Thank you for the question. It sounds like you have two separate iTunes Libraries but would like to add the music from one to the other to have one consolidated library.
If you know where the files are for each library, I recommend opening one iTunes Library in iTunes and importing the files from the other library using the following steps:
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MacAdd to Library
Windows
Add File to Library
Add Folder to Library
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1473
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Choose View > Show Duplicate Items to show duplicate items (matches are based on the song name and artist). If you have multiple versions of the same song (for example, live and studio versions, or versions from different albums) you can hold the Alt or Option key (for Mac OS X) or the Shift key (for Windows) and choose View > Show Exact Duplicate Items. This will show only duplicate songs having the same name, artist, and album.
How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2905
This should help you identify the duplicates all at one time so that you can delete the extra versions of songs.
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I wish to read from a text file in a for loop and that on every iteration i read one charachter and proceed to the next one.
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