Re: Extracting Text
TonyJ wrote:
> What application (VBScript, Perl, TCL, C etc) would be recommended to
> extract text from a text file and placed into a new file. I have
> literally hundreds of text files and want to take out measured data from
> within each file. The data extracted would be placed into a new file and
> placed in columns for later analysis. Your thoughts.
A scripting language, such as Ruby or Python, with regular expressions
built-into the language.
Regular expressions were invented as a miniature language that specifies how
to extract text.
And regular expressions are not built-into VBScript. They are strapped-on
through ActiveX, making them an absolute pain in the nads to use.
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