Hi Monks

I am not asking for anyone to write any code here but I am looking for good advice where to start with my issue.

I have a flat file and what I need to do is read the contents of that file (which is simple enough) but the part I cant work out is I need to join the contents of the file into one complete string between pointers in a file.

Example is an extract from the test file 

# 20130115 175816.654330
modify 0;mc_ueid='mc.hq_i_aix_01.10f59802.0';
        mc_modhist=[hq_i_aix_01];
        repeat_count=1;
END

# 20130115 175817.304403
modify 0;mc_ueid='mc.hq_i_aix_01.10d41bfd.2';
        mc_modhist=[hq_i_aix_01];
        repeat_count=14555;
END

# 20130115 175817.615425
modify 0;mc_ueid='mc.hq_i_aix_01.10c99dfe.1';
        mc_modhist=[hq_i_aix_01];
        repeat_count=14605;
END

# 20130115 175818.571722
modify 0;mc_ueid='mc.hq_i_aix_01.10f58d1f.0';
        mc_modhist=[hq_i_aix_01];
        repeat_count=10;
END

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I need to start at the # of each entry and finish at the END and remove the carriage returns and join the contents of the data into one complete string keeping the ";" separators. I need to do this for each occurrence of data which falls between # and END. I hope I've explained it ok

Any help would be much appreciated"

In reply to Parsing file and joining content into string by Mark.Allan

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