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April 09, 2008

Function Creates Multidimensional Arrays from Delimited Text Files

This VBScript user-defined function can help streamline many text-based processes
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Instead of having to write a separate routine for each text-based process that arranges data into a form that can be used within scripts, you can simply create a multidimensional array of the data and reference the data by rows and columns as if it . . .

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