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Re: parsing text files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hunziker)
Thu Dec 3 08:13:19 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 06:55:45 -0600
From: Mike Hunziker <MCHunziker@us.fortis.com>
To: redhat-digest@redhat.com
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I would use a regex and perl. Mastering regex's are difficult but worth
the effort....I'm still working on it.
> You're right and you're wrong. It turns out that the column of
>information I was actually pulling information from only had one>
>word - so I lucked out *grin*. This wouldn't have worked in the
>example I gave though if I were trying to pull the person's last
>and first name because they are separate words and would have been
>parsed into separate variables. So out of curiosity, how would
>have you gone about separating the column if it had multiple
>words and the number of words varied?
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