I guess i jumped the gun a little bit. My apologies. It works for the sample i provided, but the real file has almost 300 fields in each record..some of those values are populated and some aren't...so simply joining a "|" at the end doesn't work for the actual file.

is there a way to do what you did but instead of Joining one pipe at the end can we somehow join the remaining ~300 col values to each record? 

row|1|CUSIP|35472T200|ARDIV|||20150112||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+|||||||||||||||||||||20150321||||||G||||||||||||||||||||FR|||||||||||
+||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||X||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||LIQ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+||||||||||||

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Sorry for the incomplete data and thx again.

In reply to Re^2: one liner to capture value of field and insert in another field by dirtdog
in thread one liner to capture value of field and insert in another field by dirtdog

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