At 11:09 -0700 9/9/10, Bruce Van Allen wrote: >On 2010-09-09, m i l e s wrote: > >>I have data from a OUTLOOK export that's been corrupted. It appears that >>Outlook is putting extraneous data from the NOTES field into the TITLE field >>of the export, which ends up column shifting the resulting records that >>follow the first record. >> >>Look at the sample data below: its column shifted the following: >>" Low Normal Web Page >> >>Down to the next line, and anything in the notes field gets stuffed >>into the Title field, where there should be nothing at all. >> >>How would I fix this with Grep ????? > >It's difficult to see the problem because email has broken your lines up. > >A few things to try, snipped by DPM >
Another thing to try: Select the lines you posted, or a more original source, and paste them into a spreadsheet. Excel, for instance, recognizes the tabs and will place items in columns across the page. BBEdit offers no way to do that. When I did that I found missing tabs with "135 Lexington Avenue" coming under "Job Title" instead of "Business Street". It's as if someone was adjusting the tabs so that the format would look right in his text-oriented display. Converting tabs to spaces could do that and create a terrible mess. Using Excel's "insert cells" command it's possible to line some things up with what BBEdit would think are inserted tabs but you'd be guessing based on content and that's hard to automate. With a lot more items you might see usable patterns with the real column structure offered by a spreadsheet. The Jack Hirsch item seems totally unrelated to the headings. It appears on a row by itself. The other items have nothing in the Title, column 1. With all of those columns, mostly blank, you have a pretty good example of what xml files are for. -- --> Give me liberty or give me Obamacare <-- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
