My suggestion would be to search within the strings using a series of
regular expressions ("regex").It's brute force, but you can develop easily understood code (best to get a regex tester - several of them, esp for .NET) with a series of switch or case statements. As you recognize more of the "system", hone your regex so that it does it better. IL Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mapinfo-l- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Thoen > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:10 PM > To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com > Subject: SUMMARY: [MI-L] Parsing Problem > > A couple of days ago I asked for help on how to approach a parsing > problem. > In short, I have a table with a column that contains coded descriptions of > areas defined relative to the PLSS grid. The descriptions have definite > patterns to them, and it's easy for me to translate them individually, but > there are thousands of records and the patterns are different depending on > which county they occurr in, so it's been tantalizingly difficult to write > a program to convert these all to a common format. > > I received several responses. <snip> _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
