I have a text file which is formated like this:
Date and Time
measure1 measure2 measure3 measure4 measure5 measure6
title1 wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum text
title2 wholenum wholenum null null null null
<<blank line>>
measure7 measure8 measure9 measure10
title3 wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum
title4 wholenum wholenum wholenum null
<<blank line>>
measure11 measure12 measure13 measure14 measure15 measure16
title5 text text wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum
title6 text text wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum
Date and Time
measure1 measure2 measure3 measure4 measure5 measure6
title1 wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum text
title2 wholenum wholenum null null null null
<<blank line>>
measure7 measure8 measure9 measure10
title3 wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum
title4 wholenum wholenum wholenum null
<<blank line>>
measure11 measure12 measure13 measure14 measure15 measure16
title5 text text wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum
title6 text text wholenum wholenum wholenum wholenum
This is a source system generated file being supplied to me. I am tryin to work with the analytics but transforming it into a useable file is dificult.
Can someone assit me in transforming that source file into a format like this?
Date and Time
Meas1 Meas2 Meas3 Meas4 Meas5 Meas6 Meas7 Meas8 Meas9 Meas10 Meas11 Meas12 Meas13 Meas14 (etc)
title1
title2
title3
title4
title5
title6
The assumption here is that all measure are to be column headings, and any values that do not exist for a given title would be set to NULL.
Thanks