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Re: text file extraction without knowing anything [message #78042]

Wed, 19 October 2011 13:52

Michael Galloy
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On 10/19/11 1:54 PM, kisCA wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have this file containing text and numbers for a month of
> measurements I need to extract but the number of lines with the values
> I need is not regular. So how can I manage to initialize an array I
> don't know the size ?
>
> To describe the pattern:
>
> line 1: header with the date I need
> line 2-5: header with quantity and unit
> line 6-don't know: values
> then 26 lines with text
>
> Thank you
>
> Cheers

The FILE_LINES routine will tell you the number of total lines in the
file, n -- so the number of lines with values should be n - 5 - 26.

Mike
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