Reading and analysing textfiles and building sting arrays

Question

Hello community,

 

I'm working on a project were I need to read several types of measurement files (basically text). In most cases, the files consist of a header and several additional lines like this:

 

Orginator "blah blah"

Descriptor "blah blah"

...........

...........

 

begin_data

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ....... X

end_data

 

What I want is to:

 

1. Open the file

2. Analyze the file and search for strings named begin_data and end_data

3. Remove everything except the numbers between end_data and begin_data

4. Built a string array constisting only of the numbers then split the string using " " as separator

 

The begin_data and end_data strings are allways present but may vary in position. 

 

Gratefull for any ideas and suggestions.

 

Vladimir