>>>>I'm not doing your work for you. Craig has told you how to proceed, but you didn't hear a word he said. Look at the webisted on google for refactoring code and apply the principals discussed. You want someone else to do it for you. I refuse.
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>>>John,
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>>>All you do is criticize. I showed that the input I am working with is already complex mess. I am trying as best as I can to make small pieces, small methods that do some thing and then plug them into a bigger method to return what I need. This is what I think is the first part of re-factoring. Making small methods doing one thing.
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>>Naomi, I think John is trying to give you good and valuable advice. I know he has been nasty to you in the past but in this case I think you would do well to listen.
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>>Good luck!
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>I do listen. BTW, I think I noticed something about you - didn't notice this before. When your input is not required, you go in and stir the pot. You would not add anything helpful or useful, but will get a new spin to a thread which just started to calm down.

I apologize for that. I have not been logging in to the UT as often as I used to and react to posts as I find them. It was not my intention to stir the pot.