If anyone of you wise guys out there has a solution, I would be veeeeeery grateful to hear about it.

Here is solution 

shortInfile.txt
person 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
abe 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
lincoln 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Becomes 

person.txt
1 2 3 4 something something
abe.txt
1 2 3 4 something something
lincoln.txt
1 2 3 4 something something

[download]

The solution is to describe the desired output based on representative input which is very short. After you do that, you can wrap your head around it, write code to do it.

In reply to Re: Spliting Table (a solution) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Spliting Table by tschelineli

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