DataMystic

OK, thanks...

This is one you should fix or write up in help. I lost a couple of hours assuming it was something I didn't understand.

I am trying to write a perl pattern where the entire line matches. So, for the text "This is a test", I have tried "^This is a test$". While this seems to work in other programs (RegexBuddy), I get no matches if I type the following into the trial input:
This is a Test
This is a Test 2
This is a ...

Actually, I have read both the data mining and report mining white papers. Neither, however, seems to talk about this issue of missing data fields in some records.

Anyone have some general guidance on data mining of reports in which the data can have fields missing? For example, I need to mine a straight ASCII report of addresses laid out like

Person Name
Title
Company Name
Street1
Street2
City, State Zip

where the title, company name, and street2 fields are ...