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marioepsley wrote:
> I'm not coder but i needed to extract some information from a text file and
> some one pointed me in this direction. 
> 
> 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
> 
Mario,

Or, skipping emacs all together, use AWK

awk -F \\t '{print $2}' < input.txt | tr -d ' ' > output.txt

This AWK command sets the field delimiter to TAB (aka \\t),
and prints the second field from each line in the file.
The tr command deletes all spaces from its input.

If you use MS-Windows, only use one \

HTH,
Colin S. Miller