[H-GEN] Splitting up a text file
Andrae Muys
a.muys at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Mon Aug 21 01:26:27 EDT 2000
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Adil, Kim - Brisbane (Maintenance) wrote:
> I have a contract in a large text file and I would like to split each of the
> clauses up and insert them into a postgresql database in a text field (not
> limited by number of characters). I believe that we can use the new line and
> the leading clause number to mark where the file should be split. Any ideas,
> maybe a perl script with regexp?
>
Yes it is possible. However before you can get a more specific answer you
will have to provide a more complete description of the input format, and
how you want the output formatted. ie. as a requirements specification,
the above description is inadequate.
Andrae
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