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Russell Duffy wrote:

> Greetings,
>  
> This is only distantly related, since it might be a way to collect 
> data from the EM2, but for now it's for my Dynon.  I'm looking for 
> someone who knows a lot more about excel than I do.  I have managed to 
> collect raw serial data from the Dynon, which is a string of about 120 
> ASCII characters per line.  I need to be able to import this into 
> Excel, but have it spread out across multiple columns. 
>  
> For example, I might want the first two characters of each line in the 
> first column, then the next four characters in the 2nd column, etc, 
> defining how many characters go in each column.  If there were 
> delimiters in the data, it would be easy, but there aren't any.  
>  
> If anyone can help me figure out how to do this, please email me 
> offlist.  I really don't want to clutter the list with this.  
>  
> Thanks,
> Rusty 
> russell dot duffy at gmail dot com

If you've got a Linux box sitting around I could write you a script to 
parse it and write a comma delimited file.  Only take ten lines or so.  
Something I'll be doing anyway.  Can you send me a representative sample?

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