You’re right, Matt. I should get into regExp. As soon as I have the time to re-write again, I’ll call you up.
You really need to get more into regular expressions
I take a 100,000 line account dump from our GL system, parse the thing with regexp, then summarize in excel and split into relevant text files in about 10 seconds. My monthly 450,000+ line data dump does take about 25 seconds to do, but there are too many calculations in there to speed it up anymore. You know how to reach me if you want to know more