Data Parser is a nifty ‘little’ stack for transforming data from Column format to Delimited format or to change the delimiter of your data file.
Why should you want to do that? Well, basically because the statistical software you use wants the data in a specific format. E.g. a certain widely used statistical package for mainframes likes its data to be in column format, while a widely used spreadsheet for the Macintosh wants its data in ‘Tab’ or ‘comma’ delimited format. (OK, a spreadsheet is NOT statistical software, but it just goes as an example.) Although most statistical software offers services for the exchange of data between packages, usually, at least in my experience, the one you need just isn't there. So faced with the need to move data from a mainframe to my Macintosh, and the complete lack of portability of the data files I conceived, created and wrote Data Parser.
Do NOT rename data parser, at least ont function in it relies on the fact that the stack is named "Data Parser 4.1"
Data Parser NEEDS Hypercard 2.1 or later. It has been tested on a Classic running system 6.0.7 with 2.5 Mb of RAM and Hypercard 2.1
Data Parser is Use ware, if you find it usefull USE it.
