All,

I am parsing a database, and one of the fields is the description of a problem (basically, a big text field). When new comments are added to the problem, the description is appended with a timestamp of when the updates where made. So, for example, the description field could look like the following.: 

[Thu Dec  9 23:54:43 2004, <username>]: description of problems ... ju
+st some verbiage ..... 

[Thu Dec  10 23:54:43 2004, <username>]: just more verbiage ..... 

[Thu Dec  11 23:54:43 2004, <username>]: just more and more verbiage .
+.... 

[Thu Dec  12 23:54:43 2004, <username>]: just more and more and more v
+erbiage ..... 

[Thu Dec  13 23:54:43 2004, <username>]: just more and more and more a
+nd more verbiage .....

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Where the very last entry, is the most recent update. What I would like to do is only capture the last entry made, including the date/time stamp. So, after parsing that description field, my output would only return (from Dec 13) 
[Thu Dec  13 23:54:43 2004, <username>]: just more and more and more a
+nd more verbiage .....

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I'm not sure where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Parsing a data field that is seperated by data/time entries by TASdvlper

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