[KLUG Members] Parsing a Text file

Jamie McCarthy jamie at mccarthy.vg
Thu Jul 21 09:16:23 EDT 2005


aeidson at meglink.com (Andrew Eidson) writes:

> 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.

Perl.

If you don't know Perl, you'll find it useful for future projects
too.  I'll be happy to help;  email me with details of what you're
trying to do, if you like.
-- 
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  jamie at mccarthy.vg



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