[KLUG Members] Parsing a Text file

[Dirk H Bartley]

I still would not use anything but perl for processing a text file like
your talking about.  All the other tools would probably work as well,
but not give you the ease of use of regex substitutions if desired.

ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/projects/dbartley/scripting.tgz

Dirk

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:42 -0400, Andrew Eidson wrote:
> Hello all.. I was wondering what is the best way to Parse a fixed length
> text file in linux.. I have a file that is 900 Characters long and needs to
> be broken out into a comma or tab delimited file so I can then import it
> into another database application. The application does not handle fixed
> length files with no delimiters... For those of you in schools you may have
> something since this is a State SRSD file that I need to Parse.. but just
> wondering what I should use.