On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
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.
Johnathan, My understanding is that csv format has been standardized only very recently and not every application adheres to it. In this case, I had changed the extension to .txt and the field separator is "|". The only spaces are within a field. The "paragraphs" are separated by two newlines as each is a block of lines separated by a single newline. What you wrote makes sense but if the problem was a whitespace issue why would it be limited to only the first field and only the first three paragraphs? Anyway, as there are always multiple ways to accomplish the same thing in linux I used 'sort' on the one-line-per-contact file and will soon reformat it into discrete "paragraphs." Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
