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Can't you just use regular expressions to split it up?  Like this for example
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/scala-cookbook/9781449340292/ch01s09.html

Colin
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 21:18, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm trying to split on spaces but one of the data columns has spaces in it and no quotes around it It's sms exported from my phone  I wanna save them to a table Each line looks like the line below The first is the phone number then the date and time, then the body of the sms message and then a single digit 1 or 2 to indicate if the message was sent or received Looks like between time and message body there's a tab delimeter but the other delimeters are single spaces but then the message body contains single spaces and so does the date and time column How can I split this?
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