Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Breaking data into 1500 byte chunks

Hi,

I have a text file (5 MB). It appears as a single line in a text editor. But actually it has records of 1500 byte length each.

I want to strip it down to 1500 byte records. So 1500*3500 = 5 MB (approx). The record size is always 1500 bytes.

Does anyone have a script that I can run on this file to achieve this break.

ThanksYou have 1 row of 5,000,000 bytes?

There is no CR LF chars?

Are there any delimiters?|||No there are no delimiters. All I know is they are 1500 byte records. Each record has fixed column length. But all on a single line.|||Where did the file come from?

An lrecl of 5mb?

Tell them to fix the file...

I guess you would need to write a pearl script or something...

No comments:

Post a Comment