On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:30:42PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:04:50 +0100
> Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[...]
> >
> > I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a
> > table that may or may not span newline characters in the file.
> > Basically, there are lines of the form
> >
> > {some text} & {some more text} & {text c} & {text d} \\
[...]
>
> Take a look at the perl Text::ParseWords module 'man
> text::parsewords'). It may do what you want, depending on your needs
> with respect to quoting and escaping.
Why yes, that is interesting, albeit it came just too late for me.
But there is sure to be a next time!
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richard
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