TM> What is GREP? What is it part of, and where does one find it?
Like find only better and more powerful, it uses regular expressions which
are a bit like it's a bit like 4dos wildcards.
It's a unix thing There's a bunch of shareware/freeware versions around.
TM> I'm afraid you missed the point of what part is giving trouble. It's
TM> *not* finding or reading the correct line that kills me, it's
TM> *processing* the data. A line may contain more than one parameter, and
TM> some of the parameters may consist of several "words". Assigning these
TM> parameters to a number of variables correctly is the issue.
Hmm, you could maybe use %@word with a apropriate separator character.
or have fixed width fields.
Bye.
                        
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