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How can I parse this proprietary text file into CSV with maybe regex and/or Python?
I have been given a config file from an old proprietary system that I want to parse into a CSV so I can import it into a SharePoint List or an Excel file, and access it with either Power BI or Power ...
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C++ Parsing text and writing to a csv file
**My friend sent me this and I couldn't find a way to do it. **
There are million things I've tried with AI but no hope.
I would be really appreciated if someone helped me with this.
It has to be C++
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Iterating through a folder and converting all text files to csv files Error
I ran a Powershell code that outputted a bunch of text files.
The text files look like this:
This is my aText.txt
Clark Kent
Dolly Parten
Charlie Brown
Gary Numan
It's just text files ...
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My txt to CSV code drops everything into one column
I've tried so many different approaches and I cannot figure out how to get my code to work so that my text > CSV conversion has the data separated into same structure as the text file. Everything ...
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Python pandas read file with delimiters inside the data?
I regularly have to read text files as such:
Column1; Column2; Column3
data1;dat;a2;data3
Meaning that the data in Column 2 uses the same character used as the delimiter, therefore pandas ...
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CSV file doesnt recognize text symbols
I download a csv file online. However, when I open it, it does not recognize all the symbols, making it difficult to read.
See below example of how it shows the text and next to it how it should have ...
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Why am i getting Traceback error on csv to text script which i used a python script that work on other work stations
I am getting the error below when I run the script. It works fine on a workstation. I am pretty new with python. What could be the problem? I am trying to convert all csv files in that directory to ...
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pandas read textfile as dataframe
I have a textfile with hundreds of rows where each row looks like the following:
"LastName, FirstName MiddleName", 222555,X-150,2023,0.15,0.20,0.5,"1, 2, 10",--,1.5,5.10,report
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How to replace all characters before and after specific place in text in Python
I have a csv file with delimiter in text column. The number of delimiter in text column is different from row to row.
Example of csv data (delimiter is '_'):
ID_GROUP_TEXT_DATE_PART
101_group_1_Some ...
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Text file to CSV conversion with columns
I have a text file with the following structure. The first line is the heading and the next line defines the two (nm and sigma) column names. How can I convert this to csv files and save them? ...
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How to split readLines output into text array R
I am using readLines to read the first 4 lines of csv files to determine what the headers are so I can concatenate files with similar headers. readLines produces difficult output that looks like this ...
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Handling `CRLF` line endings in substitution and `split` in Perl
I need to process many files (with CRLF line endings) that look like that:
$ cat -v file1.txt
1$XXX$ZZZ$$$$$$$$^M
2$AAA$BBB$$$$$$$$^M
$ cat -v file2.txt
1$4668$$$^M
2$46$$$^M
I need to:
remove the ...
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How to split a large CSV file conditionally in Windows or Linux?
I have a CSV file that's way too large for Excel and I'd like to split it into smaller files. I already found a way to do this here, and it even preserves the header row which is great.
However, I ...
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MacOS - Combine multiple text files into one spreadsheet with one file per a column?
Using MacOS terminal, is there away to take a directory of text files and have them all combined into one spreadsheet (either CSV or Numbers format) so:
Every file is in a separate column
Every line ...
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Using powershell to read text files, Edit a Column before outputting each text file to a CSV
I've got a batch of text files that need to be converted to csv files. However, once I open the csv file, the data in a column has been converted to scientific notation. I want to prevent this by ...
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