Okay. I have a messy PDF table. It does not want to place nice. The following example -- see below -- comes across as 1 cell.
I tried using the delimiter \n. That did not work.
The key is the # at the start of a line. This is the LINE NUMBER. The LINE NUMBER is followed by the PROGRAM TITLE. The line or lines between LINE NUMBER / PROGRAM TITLE rows are COMMENTS. There may be one or more COMMENT rows associated with each LINE NUMBER / PROGRAM TITLE. How can split this jumbled mess into these fields (see desired output below)?
I also want to get rid of all '.' (periods). This will leave some OCR errors, but I am okay with that (for now).
EXAMPLE of STARTING MESS |
2 Utility FNI Aircraft ....................................................................... Insufficient budget justification: Lack of supporting jus- tification ............................................................................ 4 R0-11 (RAVEN) ...................... ..... ...................... ...... ...... ................ . Improving funds management: Prior year carl)'OV1!r ...... ...... . 5 Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) ................. .... ..... ......... Insufficient budget justification: Poor justification mate- rials ................................................................................... 7 Helicopter, Light Utility (LUH( ............ ....................... .................... . Program increase, Three aircraft ......................................... Program increase, Expandable rotorcraft diagnostics .......... 12 UH-60 Blackhawk M Model (MVP) ................ ................ ...... .......... . Restoring acquisition accountability, Unit cost growth ........ 16 CH-47 Helicopter-AP .................................................................. Program increase ................... ............................................... . 20 Gray Eagle Mods2 ............................ .............................................. . Program increase ............ ....................................................... 26 EMARSS SEMA Mods (MIP) ............ ................................. ................ Program increase: Performance enhancements .................... 28 0 Utility ;: : : t: : e s: ,·uii' ,2·,ii..;i ·; i;i ; i.. d··j;; ·: I uct improvements ............................... .............................. |
This is my desired output. Note I left the OCR errors.
LINE NUMBER | PROGRAM TITLE | COMMENT |
2 | Utility FNI Aircraft | Insufficient budget justification: Lack of supporting justification |
4 | R0-11 (RAVEN) | Improving funds management: Prior year carl)'OV1!r |
Solved! Go to Solution.
The number (LINE NUMBER) can be 1 to 3 digits.
Okay. I had to change the field size to get the initial split to columns using the delimiter \n to work. The data cleansing tools takes care of the punctuation. From there, it was just a series of multi-row and REGEX parse steps.