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Re: st: importing LONG string variables


From   "Friedrich Huebler" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: importing LONG string variables
Date   Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:09:27 -0400

Denisa,

Can you go back to the original data and create a properly delimited
text file as in the example below, with the same number of fields in
each row?

Name,Name,,Address,Address,,PatClass,PatClass,PatClass
Name,Name,Name,Address,Address,Address,PatClass,,

Friedrich

On 8/24/07, Mindruta, Denisa Constanta <[email protected]> wrote:
> The delimiter between names and addresses is "tab" (well, it was "comma" in the previous message but it's easy to change it to "tab", which is less confusing) ; the delimiter among address (or names) themselves is "|". Because the number of addresses (and names) varies across rows, I will need a program to read across rows, count the number of "|" between two tabs and create as many new columns as the max number of "|" (+1) across rows. Then put everything between two "|" in one of the new columns. I guess I will have to do this in a different program/text editor, unless someone suggests a solution.
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