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From: Jay Fraser
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:49

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I work with telephone directories, and the text files I receive usually have a series of periods instead of a single tab. I.e. 

AARON, Adam .....................555-1212 

I have a routine in which I replace 3 consecutive periods with a tab, then replace 5 consecutive tabs w/ a single tab, 4 tabs w/ a single, etc., until I get just one tab between the name and the phone number. I've been doing this manually, then yesterday (and last night) I tried writing a script....

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