Question: I have a dilemma I am hoping someone might be able to help me with!
I have exported a PDF file into excel that has a lot of information that populates into one cell. I need to split this information into separate cells, but all the information has different spacing. Here is an example: 

```
John Smith 1234 Main St
Charlie Motto 6548 Teflon Ave
Shannon Guesswho 12W546 Spoon Dr

```

So, I need to put the names in one cell and the addresses (Preferably numeric and street separate).

Is there any way to do this?

Answer: 
They can be useful in specific situations (informal audit, archiving) but it is common practice on Linux at to disable (**noatime**), or at least minimize (**relatime**), the use of it in most situations due to performance and/or privacy concerns. Often **mtime** (modification time) and **ctime** (change time) are the more useful timestamps to use.

In addition to the performance overhead, something that often renders **atime** less useful is that both your operating system and commonly used tools (backup utilities etc.) end up 'touching' many files that are otherwise unused by users. So unless they support avoiding updating **atime**[1], using it for audit trails or archiving can be rendered useless if common automated tasks result in the **atime** being updated.

[1] In many audit situations, the ability to avoid updating **atime** would be a red flag to auditors since the very fact that it could be bypassed would render it invalid in their eyes. i.e. a malicious actor could use those same facilities to avoid detection.
Many computers are used in business environments, not the home. Most businesses have both legal and practical requirements to ensure that data is auditable.

They are also useful in managing the filesystem, cacheing, and backup processes.

Heck, they are useful when you wrote 3 documents with similar names, and you don’t remember which was the last one you worked on.