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[WhiteNight]

I am new to this and need some help with a little problem. I have a list which looks like this:

Off at 12:55:24
Off at 13:10:27
Off at 13:25:24
On at 13:33:48
On at 13:40:24
On at 13:55:24
Off at 14:03:48
Off at 14:10:24
Off at 14:25:25
On at 14:38:01
On at 14:40:25
Off at 14:53:01
Off at 14:55:25
Off at 15:10:27
On at 15:16:45
Off at 15:17:48
Off at 15:25:25

What i want to do is take the first occurrence of “on” and match it with the next occurrence of “off”, then post that to a new file. So for every occurrence of “on” I want the corresponding “off” to be logged. The new file will look like this:

On at 13:33:48
Off at 14:03:48
On at 14:38:01
Off at 14:53:01
On at 15:16:45
Off at 15:17:48

I have played with it many different ways, like ifinstring and loop, parse, but I can’t seem to get it to work right. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[toralf]

Hi,
By the look of your examples the result will be also ordered in time, right? So that there is nothing like this:

On 10:13
Off 11:15
On 11:01
Off 11:25

Or like this

On 10:13
Off 11:15
On 11:01
Off 11:10

If this is true, it is pretty simple. Make a loop over the timely ordered times. Check with if if it a "on" is the first parameter, put that line to a file and remeber that you now have a ON. In the next rounds you look for a "off". If you find one, put it to the file and start to look for on again

So it is kind of