Legacy data parsing

[Jeremy Jones]

gov wrote:

>Hi,
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>If anyone could give me suggestions as to methods in sorting this type
>of data, it would be appreciated.
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Maybe it's overkill, but I'd *highly* recommend David Mertz's excellent 
book "Text Processing in Python": http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/  Don't know 
what all you're needing to do, but that small snip smells like it needs 
a state machine which this book has an excellent, simple one in (I 
think) chapter 4. 

Jeremy Jones