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Old 05-18-2010
Gathering data from complex/large dataspreads .txt format

Hi, I'm working on gathering information stored in .txt files. The format of the data within the .txt files is shown in the picture uploaded with this post. Sections like the one pictured are repeated (with different data, same format) many times within each .txt file but each section is of data from different instances.

I have very little experience with coding/unix etc.
I am using terminal with Mac OS X.
I need to use a program because the amount of data I have to comb through makes brute force copy and pasting impractical.

Within each instance i need to find and extract the time, location, the data listed in the lines marked MOT, HNR, IBM, ABR, MWM, OFK, ALO, SOW, AND SBM. Then i need to transfer that information into a new .txt file.

I'm not sure where to start basically.
Hopefully i provided enough information to get a start but if you need more please ask.

Thank you.
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grcompiler(1)															     grcompiler(1)

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grcompiler - Compile GDL into a TrueType Font SYNOPSIS
grcompiler [-d] [-D] [-g] [-n number] [-v number] [-w number] [-wall] [-q] gdl-file font-file [output-file] [output-fontname] Description Grcompiler compiles a Graphite Description Language description of the smarts for a font along with a TrueType Font to create a graphite font with graphite tables in it. -d Generate XML debugger file. -D Generate all debugger files. -g Permit and ignore invalid glyph definitions. -nnumber Set name table start location. -q Quiet mode (no messages except on error). -vnumber Set Silf table version number. -wnnnn Ignore warning with the given number. This option may be repeated. -wall Display all warnings. Environment grcompiler makes use of the following environment variables GDLPP Specifies the command to execute to run the GDL preprocessor Files gdlerr.txt Warnings and errors are output to this file. dbg_classes.txt Debug file that specifies the classes stored in the font in terms of their GDL source and containing glyph ids in hex. dbg_cmap.txt Debug file giving Unicode to glyph mapping of all the glyphs in the font and vice versa. dbg_enginecode.txt Debug file containing the action code and constraint code associated with each pass and rule in a pass. dbg_fsm.txt Debug file that gives the finite state machines of each pass and the rules referenced. For each pass, a mapping is given between glyph and column number. dbg_glyphattrs.txt Debug file containing all the glyph attributes and their names, along with values specified for each glyph. dbg_parsetree.txt Debug file giving the complete parse tree of the GDL source file. dbg_ruleprec.txt Debug file that lists the rules in precedence order (order in which they will be tested) for each pass. $_temp.gdl Debug file containing the output of gdlpp Author Martin Hosken <mhosken@users.sourceforge.net> $Date: 2012-05-29 11:36:50 $ grcompiler(1)
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