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Old 02-24-2018
Hmmm ... strange. Identical to what I get. Try again either proposdal in post#4 after dropping the ^\t| from the gsub regex.

Last edited by RudiC; 02-24-2018 at 05:46 PM..
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Old 02-25-2018
Hi RudiC,

Thank you.

I discovered why the output differs. The line ending of the file is CRLF since I´m working on Windows. I changed the line ending to LF and the output is the same as yours.
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