Hi there, I have a large log file in .txt format which has several pages (each page has different format,with different colums pertaining to different fields) I want to separate each column into an array so that it can be used to process later ,


place and year data: 67

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
|no.|  name | age  | place | year |
|_ _|_ _ _ _|_ _ _ | _ _ _ |  _ _ |
|1  |  sue  |33    | NY    | 2015 |
|2  |  mark |28    | cal   | 2106 |


work and language :65
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
|no.| name | languages | proficiency | time taken|
|_ _| _ _ _| _ _ _ _ _ |_ _ _ _ _ _ _| _ _ _ _ _ |      
|1  | eliz | English   | good        | 24 hrs    |
|2  | susan| Spanish   | good        | 13 hrs    |
|3  | danny| Italian   | decent      | 21 hrs    |

Position log
 
   |   |      |Pos     |value   |   |bulk|lot|   prev| newest|
   |#  |Locker|(dfg)   |(no)    |nul|val |Id |   val |val   |
   -----------------------------------------------------------
   |  0|     1|  302832|  -11.88|  1|   0|Pri|     16|      0|
   |  1|     9|  302836|   11.88|  9|   0|Pri|     10|      0|
   |  2|     1|  302832|  -11.88|  5|   3|Pri|     14|      4|
   |  3|     3|  302833|   11.88|  1|   0|sec|     12|      0|
   |  4|     6|  302837|  -11.88|  1|   0|Pri|     16|      3|

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I want these columns into an array with name as given in the table containing values as in the table. thank you.

In reply to Parsing .txt into arrays by Fshah

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