"Just say NO to Excel-generated textfiles!" Ouchie! The only thing I'm missing here is why Perl programmers accomplish the same task FOR LESS CASH FOR LESS TIME ON THE SAME PROJECT. The Pascal programmer just got 6*x bucks richer when you did the same thing in ten minutes. It's time for an uprising! (All you meanie-pointy-haired bosses out there- this is the REASON to hire Perl programmers.)
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In reply to RE: good ol' text parsing... by AgentM
in thread good ol' text parsing... by nop

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