Dear Monks,

I have done a good bit of work cleaning up the 500+ preceding lines and "other" lines I don't need to end up with this. What I am left with are the 2 lines at the top (Title & Column headings) and the 2 lines at the bottom (Copyright info) and the important info in the middle (the body info). My body info is relatively consistent with the exception of the number of lines in the Document Description.

I am at a loss on the best way to get this into an array or even if an array is the best way to get to my ultimate goal of a simple plain text email report daily Below is a small snippet of the report I am working with the test lines will often be up to 4 lines deep (max), the order number (which ALWAYS follows the text field) is never ore or less than 7 characters and the two date fields are consistently in their proper date format. If any of that helps.

Daily Listing of Reports
GW Posted Date     CRS Publication Date     Title     Text
01/14/2009
12/09/2008
China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy
RL33877
01/14/2009
12/31/2008
Greenhouse Gas Emission Drivers: Population, Economic Development and
Growth, and Energy Use
RL33970
01/14/2009
12/30/2008
School Construction, Modernization, Renovation, and Repair Issues:
110th Congress
RS22894
© Copyright GalleryWatch.com, Inc. (1999 - 2009), provided under licen
+se.
NO CLAIM TO ORIGINAL U.S. OR STATE GOVERNMENT WORKS

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Many thanks.
Jon

In reply to Getting From here to an Array by jseager

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