[olug] Database export problem

[Jay Hannah]

On Oct 10, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Eric Lusk wrote:
> Well, it's slow work but I'm getting there....  Found
> out I can export PARTS of the database, but end up
> with everything split up in multiple ascii files...
> Lots of copying and pasting going on.

Echoing Dave and Russ' comments: Sounds like you need/needed a little 
data munging script. I've written hundreds of those over the years, 
mostly in Perl.

Next time before you spend hours/days/weekends copying and pasting you 
might want to paste a few lines of your data to a mailing list and 
explain what your desired state is. You'll probably get a dozen people 
sending you 3-15 line programs that do what you want (in various 
languages -- take your pick).

HTH,

j
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