Have you checked to see if your data contains values that get successfully match the regexp within the paragraph-start or paragraph-separate lisp variables? Perhaps there are some whitespace characters (TAB, or FF) in unusual locations in the data. In my experience CSV always has an irregular character in it somewhere that causes heartache.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 5:34 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Ken Stephens wrote: > > Hidden characters. Check to see with od what characters are in those >> paragraphs that give you trouble. >> > > Ken, > > That's a thought. The data are from an exported .csv file so there > shouldn't be any hidden characters. As a test, I moved the first three > paragraphs to the end of the list and resorted. Again, the words on the > first line prior to the opening parenthesis were deleted from the top three > paragraphs. > > The paragraphs were formed from single lines using a one-line awk > program. > The parsimonious solution is to do the sorting on the single lines, then > run > them through the awk program to format each into a distict group. > > Thanks, > > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
