in reply to Re: Re-formatting multi-line records
in thread Re-formatting multi-line records

I agree with ikegami, by asking questions like this without any effort on your own side, you are not doing yourself a favor.

What you really need to do now is to read a Perl book, and understand the basics. Focus on simple regexp, split() and substr().

But you at least did one thing right, you picked Perl. Perl is perfect for this type of task. Or maybe someone picked it for you, but still a good choice.

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Re^3: Re-formatting multi-line records
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 25, 2004 at 00:28 UTC
    Thanks pg I am new to Perl and was pointed in Perl's direction to do the task. I am not a programmer which doesn't help. I have tried using split and substr, but the data position is not consistent for all records which doesn't help. Rather than waste your time I will do the fix manually in MS Excel.