I imagine that the FieldStateOption is irrelevant, so you might be able to
create a data.frame like this:
library(tidyr)
fl <- readLines("pdf_dump.txt")
fl <- grep("FieldStateOption", fl, value = TRUE, invert = TRUE)
field_number <- vector(mode = "integer", length = length(fl))
tmpid <- 0
for(i
Hi Vijayan,
You have a bit of a problem with repeated field names. While you can
mangle the field names to do something like this, I don't see how you
are going to make sense of multiple "FieldStateOption" fields. The
strategy I would take is to collect all of the field names and then
set up rows w
Dear r-help group
I have a text file which is a data dump of a pdf form as given below..
I want it to be converted into a data frame with field name as column names
and the field value as the row value for each field.
I might have different pdf forms with different field name value pairs to
process
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