Scripting Question
Derek Broughton
derek at pointerstop.ca
Sat Feb 14 15:52:09 UTC 2009
Patton Echols wrote:
> I have a fairly massive flat file, comma delimited, that I want to
> extract info from. Specifically, I want to extract the first and last
> name and email addresses for those who have them to a new file with just
> that info. (The windows database program that this comes from simply
> will not do it) I can grep the file for the @ symbol to at least
> exclude the lines without an email address (or the @ symbol in the notes
> field) But if I can figure this out, I can also adapt what I learn for
> the next time. Can anyone point me in the right direction for my "light
> reading?"
Is this somthing that really needs to be scripted? If you do it once a
year, I'd open the file in OpenOffice, and resave just what I want.
Otherwise, I'd use python and the cvs module :-)
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