I used the CD - but I can't see why the same technique will not work with the online version.
I repeat it's not easy and I would not recommend trying to do it with large communities of more than say 2,000 people.
David
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Dr David Alan Gatley
Award Leader, Sociology
Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
Staffordshire University
College Road
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 2DE
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From: From: Local-History list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frances Coakley [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 March 2011 16:40
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Subject: Re: [LOCAL-HISTORY] Fwd: [LOCAL-HISTORY] Census Spreadsheet
Which file - from the CD ? or from which webpage
I'd very much like to easily find for example all Manx born in 1881
(1851 would have been much more convenient)
removing multiple spaces tabs etc is totally trivial using Perl or any
of the grep/awk tools under Linux-like systems (admittedly such tools
are deliberately broken under Windoze but you can install cygwin)
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