Suggestions for how to approach this problem?

[John Salerno]

Necmettin Begiter wrote:

> Is this how the text looks like:
> 
> 123
> some information
> 
> 124 some other information
> 
> 126(tab here)something else
> 
> If this is the case (the numbers are at the beginning, and after the numbers 
> there is either a newline or a tab, the logic might be this simple:

They all seem to be a little different. One consistency is that each 
number is followed by two spaces. There is nothing separating each 
reference except a single newline, which I want to preserve. But within 
each reference there might be a combination of spaces, tabs, or newlines.