Pretty much a novice using text editors but I am trying to create(real-time)flight plans for Microsoft Flight Simulator using available airline PDF timetables...which of course you can downloaded from most airline's websites.
Using basic regular expressions/other I am able to(after copy/paste to a .txt from said pdf)move data around into a format that is eventually(other steps involved)readable by a program that was created to make the flight plans usable by Flight Simulator. With little knowledge of expressions/scripts/etc. I'm sure I do things the long way(mostly the wrong way :-|). One of the many short comings of this is it makes it virtually impossible to edit flight data from the "major" airlines...which have 100's of flights and thus their timetables contain over a thousand lines of data that need edited in one way or another. Without knowing shortcuts/etc. it makes(sometimes)line by line edits very time consuming. To give you an example of a typical timetable project I am currently working on..Midwest Airlines...the following data(below)is an excerpt from the data obtained using cut/paste from their PDF timetable. Unfortunately, using the basic version of FOXIT reader for reading PDF's I am not able to get a clean text version of the PDF with the simple "copy-all/paste" feature...and thus some spaces are omitted...giving me the problem of having to edit those spaces back in. So, for this particular airlines timetable the first step is to look for a shortcut to separate(by a space) the information that was bunched together... From... 06350740YX6028G CRJ12345671:05 11451246YX6002G CRJ12345.71:01 13351434YX6009G CRJ12345670:59 etc. To... 0635 0740 YX6028G CRJ 1234567 1:05 1145 1246 YX6002G CRJ 12345.7 1:01 1335 1434 YX6009G CRJ 1234567 0:59 etc. Not sure of the limitations of text editors like PSPad in regards to this project. But being able to simplify the process...in any way...will be greatly appreciated. Again...sorry for the long first post. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,52367,52367> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
