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Default Text data with irregular data separators

Staff at my company have been spending hours retyping data into spreadsheets
from a text file export. The Data is repeating dual lines of information:
Last name, First name,... which then ends with the state "WASHINGTON" and a
carriage return followed by the next line.

Each entry is like this:


ADAM THOMAS 21688883 09/25/1966 2224 WASHINGTON


Act Code 13 Date Started 09/25/2004 10/23/2005 Exit Date


My thought was to create some sort of script that would replace the Tab
seperators with Commas and replace the carriage return after "WASHINGTON"
with a comma and then combine the two lines on one line. This would get rid
of the irregularities and I could then import the data into a spreadsheet.

Am I dreaming? If there is a practical solution, would someone kindly point
me in the right direction? This will save my staff countless hours. All
comments welcome no matter the relavance.

Thanks



 
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