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Re: extracting specific substrings from a text-file [message #54508]

Tue, 19 June 2007 06:42

Vince Hradil
Messages: 574
Registered: December 1999

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On Jun 19, 7:59 am, BavarianMike86 <jo.mich...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have following text-file:
>
> ---INT---
> 123
> 435
> 789
>
> ---EST--
> abc
> def
>
> ---SAT---
> x234
> y567
> z01
>
> Now I want to extract these substrings:
>
> a = '123, 456, 789'
> b = 'abc, def'
> c = 'x234, y567, z01'
>
> How can this problem be resolved?
>
> Greeting from Bavaria,
> Michael

How about:
Read each line
Use a case statement to compare with "---INT", "---EST", "---SAT"
Read each line and concatenate with the previous until you hit NULL
string (blank line)
Repeat...

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