SPUG: reg exp's

[Baker, Stephen M]

I need to parse quickly through a file of the following format:

heading1: data1.1
heading2: data2.1
heading3: data3.1

heading1: data1.2
heading2: data2.2
heading3: data3.2

heading1: data1.3
heading2: data2.3
heading3: data3.3

to populate a data structure.  Is regular expressions the way to go about
this? OR does somebody have a trick for how this might be done?


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