Oh man… I never really used Pascal so I’m not sure how suited it would be for the task. But I guess it’s better use something you are familiar with than nothing at all. :)

My first instinct when working with text files is to use simple unix tools kile awk, sed, grep, paste and etc.. If it’s more complex than that, I use perl. :mrgreen:

This would have great when I was analzing my dissertation data. I didn’t cut and paste in StarOffice, but I did write some programs in Pascal to transform and organize my data. That’s right, I said Pascal! ;-)