I just grabbed a few lines: 090071905090405611071905001029842000281253P0223P0504011 80017
090071905090405611071905001029842000291253P0223P0504011 80007
03007190519912660000739900000026500
03007190519912660000839900000011500
040071905453901800xxxxxx x xxxxxxxx M4000
040071905453901806xxxxxx xxxxxxxx F4131
05007190545393434503187100
05007190545393963405187100
06007190545337000380199516129001399002650
06007190545337182980240356129999399013784

There are many more record types. By record types, I mean the first three characters of each line. This is why I meant to place each type to an individual file.

Original thought's were to put this into ACCESS, but then we have the fixed length and no delimiter problem.
Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: ascii manipulation in perl by brkstr
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