[thelist] Ereg
Chris Price
chris.price at choctaw.co.uk
Fri May 19 04:29:32 CDT 2006
Ian
I think you're right.
What I should probably doing is using a tab delimited file.
I can't see a tab being used in the spreadsheet.
The earlier replies are helpful because I've only dabbled in regex but
that route certainly looks like a hammer to crack a nut.
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Chris
On Friday, May 19, 2006, at 10:08 am, Ian Anderson wrote:
> Chris Price wrote:
>
>> Any ideas?
> Don't use a separator that naturally occurs in the data being
> structured?
>
> It's almost like you're using "letter a" separated values - you'd have
> the same problems.
>
> I would see if there was scope to create a string pattern that doesn't
> naturally occur in the data and use that for delimiting the fields.
>
> Hope this helps
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