Ultimately I am trying to take the ascii file and manipulate the contents without lossing any of the original data. In the file it contains multiple record types; and each of the types do not have the same length. Originally I planned to import the file into ACCESS and build a front-end with it. But, because the file isn't fixed length that plan was shot to hell. On the recomendation of a friend, he said that perl could seperate the like records and from there I could update or repair that data. Being new to perl I am looking for direction to the right info to get this done. | [reply] |