On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:08:22PM +0100, Jim Burton wrote: > Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > >It would be easier to experiment if you could provide us with an > >example input file. If you are worried about revealing sensitive > >information, you can change all characters other then newline, > >~ and , to "A"s, for example. An accompanying output file, for checking > >correctness, would be even nicer. > > Hi Tomasz, I can do that but they do essentially look like the example > above, except with 10 - 30 columns, more data in each column, and more > rows, maybe this side of a million. They are produced by an Oracle > export which escapes the delimiter (often a tilde) from within the cols. > The output file should have exactly one row per line, with extra > newlines replaced by a string given as a param (it might be a space or a > html tag -- I only just remembered this and my initial effort doesn't do > it).
I guess you've tried to convince Oracle to produce the right format in the first place, so there would be no need for post-processing...? I wonder what would you get if you set the delimiter to be a newline ;-) Best regards Tomek _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
