That example is tame.What I'm writing now is running into 700 lines and, yep, you guessed it, understanding what the heck I was thinking is now becoming the problem - hence the need to get some rhyme and reason into what I'm doing.

And re it working - course it works!! It's a funny data set in this format 

20/08/2007,Erythrocyte sedimentation rate,,3 mm/h
20/08/2008,Total white blood count,,6.7 10*9/L
and sometimes
04/04/2007,Haemoglobin estimation 12.9 g/dL,,12.9 g/dL
And a myriad other units.

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The task is to strip away the units and leave me with Date, Test, Data Being a pragmatist, getting things working is the challenge. But before packing my bags on this, I need to make it understandable if I ever need to revisit it. A dataset is around half a million lines, and the diferent types of units legion.

In reply to Re^2: Code Critique by rhiridflaidd
in thread Code Critique by rhiridflaidd

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