Re: manipulating data files

From: triggerfish2001@hotmail.com > >I have just basic knowledge of perl. The task I need to accomplish is as >follows: > >source file needs to be converted to target file. > >source file will be a fixed column length ASCII file of data. > >target file will be a PIPE ('|') seperated ASCII file of data. > >For eg:- >source file will be as follows: > >John Smith 745-678-089011-10-1955 >Robert IhaveAlongName345-567-453219-04-1967 > >Here the first 22 char is fixed length for name >Starting from 23rd char next 12 char is for SSN >Starting from 35th char next 10 char is for DOB. > >Now this needs to be changed to >John Smith|745-678-0890|11-10-1955| >Robert IhaveAlongName|345-567-4532|19-04-1967| > >The reason for this is that informix dbload or high performance loader >needs >a field delimiter. dbload certainly doesn't need a delimiter, nor does HPL. It's all in TFM. :-) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.