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Old 12-20-2004, 03:27 PM  
Dirty F
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How to extract these names?

If i have a text file that looks like this:

MARY 2.629 6,538,323 1
PATRICIA 1.073 2,668,551 2
LINDA 1.035 2,574,045 3
BARBARA 0.98 2,437,260 4
ELIZABETH 0.937 2,330,319 5
JENNIFER 0.932 2,317,884 6
MARIA 0.828 2,059,236 7
SUSAN 0.794 1,974,678 8
MARGARET 0.768 1,910,016 9
DOROTHY 0.727 1,808,049 10
LISA 0.704 1,750,848 11
NANCY 0.669 1,663,803 12
KAREN 0.667 1,658,829 13
BETTY 0.666 1,656,342 14
HELEN 0.663 1,648,881 15
SANDRA 0.629 1,564,323 16
DONNA 0.583 1,449,921 17
CAROL 0.565 1,405,155 18
RUTH 0.562 1,397,694 19
SHARON 0.522 1,298,214 20
MICHELLE 0.519 1,290,753 21
LAURA 0.51 1,268,370 22
SARAH 0.508 1,263,396 23
KIMBERLY 0.504 1,253,448 24
DEBORAH 0.494 1,228,578 25
JESSICA 0.49 1,218,630 26
SHIRLEY 0.482 1,198,734 27
CYNTHIA 0.469 1,166,403 28
ANGELA 0.468 1,163,916 29
MELISSA 0.462 1,148,994 30
BRENDA 0.455 1,131,585 31
AMY 0.451 1,121,637 32
ANNA 0.44 1,094,280 33
REBECCA 0.43 1,069,410 34
VIRGINIA 0.43 1,069,410 35
KATHLEEN 0.424 1,054,488 36
PAMELA 0.416 1,034,592 37
MARTHA 0.412 1,024,644 38
DEBRA 0.408 1,014,696 39
AMANDA 0.404 1,004,748 40
STEPHANIE 0.4 994,800 41
CAROLYN 0.385 957,495 42
CHRISTINE 0.382 950,034 43
MARIE 0.379 942,573 44
JANET 0.379 942,573 45
CATHERINE 0.373 927,651 46
FRANCES 0.37 920,190 47
ANN 0.364 905,268 48

But then bigger, is there a way to extract the names from it?
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