Re: Dealing with return characters

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2004


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Ugh! reading this code make me want to [url] and you know how messy it can be to clean the floor of sticky half digested ASCII characters Brian B. Burton Burton Logistics 973-263-3036 973-296-6862 (cell) Specializing in website design and development to make your customers exclaim: "Out of all the websites I visit, yours is the easiest to use!" On Jul 9, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Patrick McCormick wrote: > Great cartoon! > > I'm almost embarrassed to show you what worked: > > [text]stuff=[include file=db/illinois.txt][/text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=\%\0\D\%\0\A\%\0\D\%\0\A&replace=NEWRECORD][url][stuff][/url][/ > grep][/unurl][/text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=\%\0\D\%\0\A&replace=%09][url][stuff][/url][/grep][/unurl][/ > text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=NEWRECORD\%\0\9&replace=%0A%0D][url][stuff][/url][/grep][/ > unurl][/text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=NEWRECORD&replace=][url][stuff][/url][/grep][/unurl][/text] > [writefile file=temp.db][stuff][/writefile] > > > On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote: > >> Depends on the line endings of your file. Did the text file come from >> a PC (windows/dos), a unix box, or a mac (probably not would be my >> guess.) >> >> The code should clean up windows double-line feeds. >> >> anyway, try substituting in one of these three lines for the first >> line, and see if it makes a difference. >> [text]stuff=[grep >> search=%0A%0D%0A%0D&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >> [text]stuff=[grep >> search=%0A%0A&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >> [text]stuff=[grep >> search=%0D%0D&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >> >> >> Brian B. Burton >> >> On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Patrick McCormick wrote: >> >>> Spoke too soon. >>> >>> Grep seems only to replace the first occurrence and none of the >>> rest. Any reason for this? >>> >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote: >>> >>>> here's the code you need based on a thingy i made to clean up that >>>> excuse MS calls a tab-delimited text file that Excel produces. >>>> >>>> [text]stuff=[include file=startfile][/text] >>>> >>>> [text]stuff=[grep >>>> search=%0A%0D%0A%0D&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >>>> [text]stuff=[grep search=%0A%0D&replace=%09][stuff][/grep][/text] >>>> [text]stuff=[grep >>>> search=NEWRECORD&replace=%0A%0D][stuff][/grep][/text] >>>> >>>> [writefile file=output.db&secure=F][stuff][/writefile] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Brian B. Burton >>>> Burton Logistics >>>> 973-263-3036 973-296-6862 (cell) >>>> Specializing in website design and development to make your >>>> customers exclaim: >>>> "Out of all the websites I visit, yours is the easiest to use!" >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 9, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Patrick McCormick wrote: >>>> >>>>> I need to populate a db from text files. Text file has return >>>>> character between what will be each field and two returns between >>>>> what will become records: >>>>> >>>>> Name1 >>>>> Addr1 >>>>> City1, St1, Zip1 >>>>> >>>>> Name2 >>>>> Addr2 >>>>> City2, St2, Zip2 >>>>> >>>>> . >>>>> . >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> I can convert all the returns to tabs or something else, but I >>>>> need to distinguish between single and double returns to maintain >>>>> individual records. What's the easiest way? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Pat >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>>>> the mailing list . >>>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>>>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>>>> >>>>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>>> the mailing list . >>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>>> >>>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list . >>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>> >>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . 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  1. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Brian B. Burton 2004)
  2. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Patrick McCormick 2004)
  3. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Larry Hewitt 2004)
  4. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Donovan Brooke 2004)
  5. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Patrick McCormick 2004)
  6. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Brian B. Burton 2004)
  7. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Brian B. Burton 2004)
  8. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Patrick McCormick 2004)
  9. Re: Dealing with return characters ( Patrick McCormick 2004)
Ugh! reading this code make me want to [url] and you know how messy it can be to clean the floor of sticky half digested ASCII characters Brian B. Burton Burton Logistics 973-263-3036 973-296-6862 (cell) Specializing in website design and development to make your customers exclaim: "Out of all the websites I visit, yours is the easiest to use!" On Jul 9, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Patrick McCormick wrote: > Great cartoon! > > I'm almost embarrassed to show you what worked: > > [text]stuff=[include file=db/illinois.txt][/text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=\%\0\D\%\0\A\%\0\D\%\0\A&replace=NEWRECORD][url][stuff][/url][/ > grep][/unurl][/text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=\%\0\D\%\0\A&replace=%09][url][stuff][/url][/grep][/unurl][/ > text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=NEWRECORD\%\0\9&replace=%0A%0D][url][stuff][/url][/grep][/ > unurl][/text] > [text]stuff=[unurl][grep > search=NEWRECORD&replace=][url][stuff][/url][/grep][/unurl][/text] > [writefile file=temp.db][stuff][/writefile] > > > On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote: > >> Depends on the line endings of your file. Did the text file come from >> a PC (windows/dos), a unix box, or a mac (probably not would be my >> guess.) >> >> The code should clean up windows double-line feeds. >> >> anyway, try substituting in one of these three lines for the first >> line, and see if it makes a difference. >> [text]stuff=[grep >> search=%0A%0D%0A%0D&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >> [text]stuff=[grep >> search=%0A%0A&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >> [text]stuff=[grep >> search=%0D%0D&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >> >> >> Brian B. Burton >> >> On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Patrick McCormick wrote: >> >>> Spoke too soon. >>> >>> Grep seems only to replace the first occurrence and none of the >>> rest. Any reason for this? >>> >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote: >>> >>>> here's the code you need based on a thingy i made to clean up that >>>> excuse MS calls a tab-delimited text file that Excel produces. >>>> >>>> [text]stuff=[include file=startfile][/text] >>>> >>>> [text]stuff=[grep >>>> search=%0A%0D%0A%0D&replace=NEWRECORD][stuff][/grep][/text] >>>> [text]stuff=[grep search=%0A%0D&replace=%09][stuff][/grep][/text] >>>> [text]stuff=[grep >>>> search=NEWRECORD&replace=%0A%0D][stuff][/grep][/text] >>>> >>>> [writefile file=output.db&secure=F][stuff][/writefile] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Brian B. Burton >>>> Burton Logistics >>>> 973-263-3036 973-296-6862 (cell) >>>> Specializing in website design and development to make your >>>> customers exclaim: >>>> "Out of all the websites I visit, yours is the easiest to use!" >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 9, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Patrick McCormick wrote: >>>> >>>>> I need to populate a db from text files. Text file has return >>>>> character between what will be each field and two returns between >>>>> what will become records: >>>>> >>>>> Name1 >>>>> Addr1 >>>>> City1, St1, Zip1 >>>>> >>>>> Name2 >>>>> Addr2 >>>>> City2, St2, Zip2 >>>>> >>>>> . >>>>> . >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> I can convert all the returns to tabs or something else, but I >>>>> need to distinguish between single and double returns to maintain >>>>> individual records. What's the easiest way? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Pat >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>>>> the mailing list . >>>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>>>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>>>> >>>>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>>> the mailing list . >>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>>> >>>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list . >>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>> >>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . 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