Afternoon,
I'm looking for some help. I have a while loop that runs while a file is open and I need to get a either a single character or a series of characters from the line based off of position in the line.
Here is an example of one of the lines
PMMDF-REC1                  LOGSA MMDF 06114     24APRIL06   C22GEND  
+NO CURRENT PUBLICATIONS                                              
+                                                                     
+                                                                     
+                                                                     
+                                                                   <b
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In this example, at the start of the line, P is one field and MMDF is another.
I know I can split on white spaces, but I need to be able to split up as I said in the example. Anyone has any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bobby b.curtis@stanleyassociates.com

In reply to Split a Line by curtisb

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