On 10/23/07 Mike Morton wrote:
>Here is the problem - I have a bunch of text, like:
>
>James
>McGrath
>advanced
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>30
>
>
>
>douglas
>morrison
>advantage
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>30
>
>Formatted exactly like that (love data conversion!!!!) -
I'm on digest so this is a bit delayed, but another way to accomplish this,
assuming that your data output format is consistent, would be to just remove
all of the lines that aren't the email address, based on their location in the
file (line number). A search/replace like this might work (done on a copy of
the original file):
Search:
(^[^\r]*\r){3}(^[^\r]*\r)(^[^\r]*\r){5}
Replace:
\2
Then do a Replace All. This should remove the first three lines, leave you
with just the email address, and then remove the next five lines, all without
you having to worry about how the email addresses are formed. Note, my grep
skills are rudimentary and I'm sure the above search string could be written
much more cleanly.
- Brad Ummer
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