Parse/Filter Text Files


    Nov 26 2013 | 11:00 pm
    Good evening.
    I have a text file containing over 1000 lines of data in the following format
    |2013-07-29 20:18:00|4.28e-07
    I wish to separate this data so I have the date - time - float number and the other element e-07 (which changes through out the file)
    The file contains data relating to every minute over several months so filtering using the zl object doesn't really work
    I have been experimenting with the regexp and other uses of the zl object, alas i have had no joy.
    Any help would be greatly appriciated. I am more than happy to send a small version of my text file if anyone needs it to understand any more, however it really is as simple as
    |2013-07-29 20:18:00|4.28e-07 |2013-07-29 20:19:00|5.34e-07 |2013-07-29 20:20:00|4.55e-07 ..... |2013-08-29 20:15:00|3.56e-07 and so on
    Regards
    Lloyd

    • Nov 26 2013 | 11:03 pm
      I also have the data in am XMl file but i cannot get my head around parsing an XMl file.
      Again i can provide either text or XMl files if need be
      Thanks again
      Lloyd
    • Nov 28 2013 | 12:37 am
      Anybody got anything regarding this?
    • Nov 28 2013 | 9:10 pm
      This has been resolved now with massive thanks to Robert Alexander.
      It is possible to sort/filter the .txt files by importing them into microsoft excel.