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...he second (to be labelled as "DATE") with a date (indicating date of blood sampling), which is the date, again in the 13th line, following the identification code the following 22 columns (to be labelled with the name of parameters at lines from 20 to 41, as "GLICEMIA" ... "COLESTEROLO LDL") I did search in the mailing list and tried to begin something like: #read the text file reports <- readLines("ClinicalReports.txt") #processing the file starting at each "Acc.ne n. " serologic <- lapply(which(grepl("^Acc.ne n.", reports)), function(....