From: William James Date: 2006-08-03T10:30:12+09:00 Subject: Re: parsing with delimeters ---new programmer Robert Smith wrote: > I'm trying to parse a file that looks like this: > > text.... > text.... > numbers.... > blalba bla > > and then somewhere in the file i have a table like this: > > IDS_SOMETHIGN_SOMETHING "giving you cookies in a sec" > IDX_SOMETHING_SOMETHIGN "hi again" > IDY_SMOTHIENG_SOMETHIGN_SOMTHIGN "HELO world" > ID_ONE_THING "hello how are you" > ID_ONETHINGTOO "give me a number" > ID_ONEMORE_THING_ANDMORE "this are strings" > > I'm trying to create a hash table but i'm not sure what's wrong with my > delimeters: Ricardo, on Aug. 1 you posted this: > I'm trying to parse a file that looks like this: > > text.... > text.... > numbers.... > > IDS_SOMETHIGN_SOMETHING "giving you cookies in a sec" > IDX_SOMETHING_SOMETHIGN "hi again" > IDY_SMOTHIENG_SOMETHIGN_SOMTHIGN "HELO world" > ID_ONE_THING "hello how are you" > ID_ONETHINGTOO "give me a number" > ID_ONEMORE_THING_ANDMORE "this are strings" Why did you ignore the answers that you were given at that time? You should not have started a new thread.