[Cialug] multiline regular expression

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> It would seem to me though that the fields are of fixed size.  If so,
>> it'd probably be faster to code something up that pulls out the data
>> based upon that rather than relying on a regular expression.
> I agree. I'd read line by line, validating each and then splitting on
> boundaries (either white space or fixed field size). Any row that
> didn't work out could be logged and handled manually.

It is fixed with but this is actually from a report that has headers and 
other fluff around it. I was hoping to use the regex to avoid writing more 
of the removal logic myself.

> Especially since any missing line would be lost revenue. (Murphy's law
> says that the 18 hour call to Kashmir would be the line that gets
> dropped)

Very true

dave

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