Dave Hansen wrote: > Questions: > > 1) Do the citation numbers always begin in column 1?
Yes, that's one consistency at least. :) > 2) Are the citation numbers always followed by a period and then at > least one whitespace character? Yes, it seems to be either one or two whitespaces. > find the beginning of each cite. then I would output each cite > through a state machine that would reduce consecutive whitespace > characters (space, tab, newline) into a single character, separating > each cite with a newline. Interesting idea! I'm not sure what "state machine" is, but it sounds like you are suggesting that I more or less separate each reference, process it, and then rewrite it to a new file in the cleaner format? That might work pretty well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
