>From: marioepsley <marioepsley@aol.com>

>I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:
>
>Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
>   Frame
>   0   0.17489
>   1   0.261281
>   2   0.361762
>   3   0.400085
>   4   0.411538
>   5   0.434799
>   6   0.41712
>   7   0.422151
>   8   0.43181
>   9   0.411811
>
>Just to clarify the spacings: (     0       0.17489    )
>Just to clarify the spacings: (tab0tab 0.17489 tab)
>
>and i want to be left with just the raw values like this:
>
>
>0.17489
>0.261281
>0.361762
>0.400085
>0.411538
>0.434799
>0.41712
>0.422151
>0.43181
>0.411811


This isn't really an emacs answer, but

   cut -f3 foo.txt

should do what you want (assuming that your data is in a file called
"foo.txt").


>I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday

Since you mentioned aquamacs, I'm going to guess that you're using a
Mac.  If so, you'll need to run `cut' from within Terminal.app.

Of, if you want to do it within emacs, open the file with emacs and try

   C-x h ESC 1 ESC | cut -f3 RET

Broken down, this is

   C-x h       ;; selects entire buffer

   ESC 1 ESC | ;; ESC | pipes region to a command.  ESC 1 is
               ;; a prefix argument that means "replace the region
               ;; with the output of the command"

   cut -f3 RET ;; This is the command you're running on the region


Steve