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Vect(Visual Extraction Conversion Tool) can also be used on any data that we see in everyday life. In this Tutorial, we are going to introduce how to extract data from an example file using abortion statistics.

To start, click here to download the abortion data file. Save the file on Desktop and name it "abortionData".

First, we will extract all the states out of the table. Open the abortion data by click on Open button or from File->open.

1. Define open condition Right select the first state (Alabama) in the table, than select New Block Open Condition. Everything above Alabama should be in pink; Alabama itself appears to be within the green region.

2. Define close condition Right click and drag over to select the last state (Wyoming) in the table, than select New Block Close Condition. Everything below Wyoming should appear to be in the pink selected region. Wyoming itself is in the red region.

3. Select Data Left click and drag over to select all of the state the state, make sure the longest state (Dist. Of Columbia) is selected.

4. Convert Data After selecting the desired data, click on the Move button to transfer the selected data to the Convert Data panel. Name the new rule as "stateDate". Go to the Convert Data panel. You should see the new rule is already there, it should look like the picture below.

Now you have all the states you want, select this rule and click on the Copy button to move the rule to the Output Data Panel. You can see the "" is in the Primary Output column. Click on the Output button to see the output, or you can run the perl program under the Perl Program panel.