Re^2: Simple RegEx Substring Extraction from a Delimited Text Record

"I'm likely to want to refer to each of the data items by name elsewhere."

This screams hash, IMO. See reasonablekeith's suggestion.

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Re^3: Simple RegEx Substring Extraction from a Delimited Text Record by eweaver (Sexton) on Mar 15, 2006 at 16:38 UTC
However... contrary to a strange student in an AI class I took, hashing is not necessarily the answer to everything. But in this case, it is the answer :) .	[reply]