Re: Converting space-aligned text

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

You could use most any capable text editor to find large numbers of 
spaces and replace them with a tab. Or use a GREP program.

Scott

Victoria Wroblewski wrote:
> All,
>
> We've got a monster of a plain text file that is generated from our
> equipment that we need to format into something more professional
> looking.  Basically, it spits out data that we want to format to look
> something like the following:
>
>    6.20      x.xxxx  xxxx       xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    6.21                           x = x.x
>    6.22      x.xxxx  xxxx       xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    6.23                           x = x.x
>    6.24     xx.xxxx  xxxx       xxxxxxxxxxxx
>    6.25                           x = x.x
>
> The problem is that it spits this out as a text file with everything
> spaced using spaces, and not tabs.  Makin' it pretty means going in and
> manually converting various lengths of spaces into tabs, or aligning it
> all with spaces (and it's been a "six of one, half a dozen of the other"
> experience using either method).
>
> Are there any tools out there that can deal with helping to convert this
> kind of stuff?  I haven't been able to find a way to automate the
> removal of the spaces, since they can be different on each line, but I
> don't know if this type of edit is common enough where someone has put
> together any sort of application that will even do something like
> convert areas with more than two spaces into a tab rather than spaces.
>
> Anyone??
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Victoria Wroblewski
> Developer - Technical Documentation
> Eagle Test Systems, Inc.
>
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