in reply to Parsing text file Help!

Are we sure the text isn't just tab delimited? Sure looks that way. Pretty trivial if it is.

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Re^2: Parsing text file Help!
by kennethk (Abbot) on Nov 22, 2010 at 16:47 UTC
    Note the stops do not occur at regular spacing. Even if the OP's machine were mangling the tabs to spaces, all field widths would have to have a non-unity greatest common denominator.