On May 26, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Joel Dezenzio wrote:

> On the original website the cell is empty but
> ruby processes it as the symbol ( ).


Actually, on the original site, the cell is not empty, but contains a  nbsp; so you might want to test for that.

It seems like you want to assign the same value to any such row in the  provisional" table (i.e., they all tie for the next available place).

-Rob

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