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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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