[GENERAL] Desperately Seeking Regular Expression

1999-04-27 Thread Thomas Good
Hi all - I am porting a PROGRESS database to PostgreSQL. I've had success previously doing a port - but from FoxPro which allows one to dump data delimited by tabs. Unfortunately, PROGRESS dumps fields delimited by whitespace rather than tabs and I can find no documentation on how to alter thi

Re: [GENERAL] Desperately Seeking Regular Expression

1999-04-27 Thread Adriaan Joubert
I solved something like this recently in perl. It's not terribly efficient, but it is simple. I'm doing this from memory, so it may need some debugging. Use something along the lines of #!/usr/local/bin/perl while (<>) { @a = split /(\")/; # This gives you a list with some of the items being