Manav Mathur ha scritto:
Hi all,
I have a text file with columns, where the columns may not be aligned,
and not all lines may have data in all columns:
header1 header2 header3 header4
------------------------------------------------------------
l1dat1 l1dat2 l1dat3 l1dat4
l2dat1 l2dat4
l3veryveryveryverylongdat1 l3dat2
As you can see, line1 has all data, line2 is missing clomuns 2 and 3,
line 3 is a mess :)
Any thoughts on parsing such a "table"?
Please don't offer solutions suggesting to change the way the text
file is written, I have no control over that...
Regards,
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Offer Kaye
How do you logically determine that "l2dat4" in line 2 is column 4 and not
column 2??
Manav
Just a thought: because l2dat4 starting column is greater than column 4
header starting column ?
Marcello
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