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Name       Company                Work                       Home                       Work

                  Name                     Address                   Phone                       Hours

                                                                                Number

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John       ABC                          MAIN_STREET         987.111.4567            8

Bob         CNN                         2nd_Street                875.444.3425            2


I can build a hash table for the contents, but trouble is with the header. I need to find out how to get the column number based on above header, to extract the corresponding values per column. The reason to do this, because the header is dynamic, including orders, but for the same column, the header is always formated as aligned (first letter across multiple rows, as above).


For example, I need to find out which column of "Work Address" from header, then I can grep the corresponding column from the table contents.


Thanks in advance for the help!

In reply to finding colunm header which crossing multiple rows by cscu2007

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