ctilmes, I have found a small problem in the code that when there is an empty entry for a field it misses it and gets the next entry in the table for that field. Like in first line it will give me mon for SERVICE field. Do you have idea to solve this? 

+---------------+
| Bus Timetable |
+---------------+----+-----------------+------------+------+
| BUS SERVICE DAY tm | FROM  DEPT      | TO    ARR  | 24/7 |
+--------------------+-----------------+------------+------+
| C4          mon 15 | twn        0900 | Apt   1011 | yes  |
|     intl    mon    | LoDoN      1000 | XTR   1426 |      |
| B2  sussex      20 | cly        1034 | brgtn 1118 | no   |
| A0                 | manchester 1212 | xxx   xxxx | xxx  |
+--------------------+-----------------+------------+------+

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