[Cialug] multiline regular expression

[Morris Dovey]

Dave Weis wrote:
| I need to parse a text file that contains two lines per record in
| this format:
|      324     NOR  05/17/07 10:21A    0000000   999-999-9999
|       COLUMBUS OH 1      .9        .0700        .0000        .0000
|
|       Y    CURRENT         00:00:54  0000000   999-999-9999 DES
| MOINES IA
|
| There are other lines in the file that are similar like
|     LATA   USGE-GP  DATE   TIME     DEST-CITY
| --------DESTINATION--------   #RECS  MINUTES  AMOUNT-1     AMOUNT-2
| VOL-AMT
|      ANI   STATUS          ACT-DUR  ORIG-CITY
| --------ORIGINATION--------           MISC-1               MISC-2
| VOL-COD
| that is the header.
|
| I'll be using the java regexp but if anyone can direct me on any
| regexp setup I'll convert it myself.

Hmm. It'd help to know more about the problem context - I'd be
inclined to do the parsing in C using something like
http://www.iedu.com/mrd/c/tokenize.c and, depending on the size of the
file, something like http://www.iedu.com/mrd/c/tokfile.c  to tokenize
all the lines in the file in one shot...

Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/