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Using the split function to parse a text file
added on December 19, 2011 by David Hubbard
The sample program writes out a table text file to be used as input. Normally this would be created using a text editor such as Wordpad or Textpad. Excel could be used for table-driven processing as well. Excel is more powerful and versatile while text is faster and uses less memory. The text file of parameters is read in and separated by the character '#'. In the example it just displays the table parameters as they are read, but in general the parameters would be used to perform some table-driven process. Each line is split into three words using the Split() function and puts each word into a separate variable.
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