Richard Lyons wrote:
> Hi, all you script wizards.
>
> I thought this would be easy, but I haven't found anything to crib
> from...
>
> I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a
> table that may or may not span newline characters in the file.
> Basically, there are lines of the form
>
> {some text} & {some more text} & {text c} & {text d} \\
>
> where the braces are only for clarity and do not occur in the files, and
> where the bits of text may include whitespace which may include newline
> characters. There may also be escaped ampersands in the text ('\&'), and
> the text fragments may be empty.
>
> I suspect perl may be the way forward. I need to be able to read each
> file, parse each set of three ampersands with a double backslash
> breaking it into four substrings, manipulate the substrings and write
> the file anew. A typical manipulation will be to take text c and copy
> it to text d. I shall also try to strip leading and trailing whitespace
> to tidy up the file.
>
> Any and all pointers will be gratefully received!
>
>
please give real examples the text you have, as well as more info about
what processing you will do with it.
There are multiple ways to approach this, we need to have more
information first.
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