Come on, I can give you a Perl solution to the problem even before you have figured out how to load the data into a database. We have a text file, Perl is very good at manipulating textual data, why not using Perl?

As an example: 

$ echo '
> 1   11/12/2014 9:46 A
> 2   11/12/2014 9:47 B
> 3   11/12/2014 9:48 A
> 4   11/12/2014 9:49 A
> 5   11/12/2014 9:50 A
> 6   11/12/2014 9:51 A
> 7   11/12/2014 9:52 B
> 8   11/12/2014 9:53 B
> 9   11/12/2014 9:54 B
> 10  11/12/2014 9:55 B
> 11  11/12/2014 9:56 B
> 12  11/12/2014 9:57 C
> 13  11/12/2014 9:58 C
> 14  11/12/2014 9:59 C
> 15  11/12/2014 10:00    A
> 16  11/12/2014 10:01    B
> 17  11/12/2014 10:02    C
> 18  11/12/2014 10:03    C
> '  |  perl -nE 'chomp; $h{$1}++ if /(\w\s*$)/; END { say "Letter $_ 
+appears $h{$_} times"  for keys %h;}'
Letter A appears 6 times
Letter C appears 5 times
Letter B appears 7 times

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It took me less time to write the one line of code used above than to write this post.

In reply to Re^2: searching items in a row based on time and date by Laurent_R
in thread searching items in a row based on time and date by skytarget

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