A regexp would work, but it's usually the wrong level of abstraction to operate at. One wants to say "for the next 2,000 rows, retrieve columns 2 and 4, and the

A regexp would work, but it's usually the wrong level of abstraction to operate at. One wants to say "for the next 2,000 rows, retrieve columns 2 and 4, and the column labeled 'foo'", not write a regexp.