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Old December 5th, 2003, 04:28 AM
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Unhappy Require Some string Manipulation Help

I nee some string manipulation Help::

I have a large file in the office that has about 100 records of employees as below

John Doe
1, Driveway
UTAH 33661
Phone: 45654654
FAX: 654654654




Jane Doe
2, Park Lane
Virginia
Phone: 6545654
FAX: 654654654


I want all this to come on one line as follows(one person per line) separated by a semicolon or some such demarker. I can then take this in excel and save i hope!

John Doe;1, Driveway;UTAH;Phone: 45654654;FAX: 65465465
Jane Doe;2, Park Lane;Virginia;Phone: 6545654;FAX: 654654654

There are several empty lines between the addresses as shown above.

Is it possible?? Help this is urgent!

Raj

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I think each line has a paragraph marker at the end of the line. Go to find & replace, in the find textbox type ^p and in the replace box type , [if that is the delimiter you want], now your document will hvae commas at the end of each line. This is the easiest way to tokenize.

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