Sorry about the formating, being newbish sucks. I will try to answer the questions here to give a better idea of what is happening. Record starts with a literal caret L which I am counting as line 1, line 2 is always blank, line 3 can be blank or contain a name, line 4 will always contain a name, line 5 will always contain an address, line 6 is always blank, line 7 contains city state zip( which would need split out to line 7, line 7a, and line 7b), line 8 contains an a/c # ( in format of #-#), line 9 is blank, line 10 is blank, line 11 contains an a/c # ( in same format as prior), line 12 contains the 2 date fields, beginning period and ending period (format is for example 01 Oct 2006 31 Oct 2006) and I will need those split to a line 12 and line 12a, line 13 is blank, line 14 contains a message line, line 15 contains a message line, line 16 is blank and line 17 is blank, line 18 begins the details of the account, line 19 through variable number of lines is the details and finally it ends with an (EOE), then the next record begins again with the ^L. That is all the data I need to pull for the header and the detail files, the widths on the header file vary depending on which field, it could be a 12 character field or a 40 character field. No need for field delimiters since there is a process already in place to read the exact field positionings. The a/c number is what would be used to associate the detail to the header file and yes the header file needs to be one line for each customer. Does this help?

In reply to Re^2: File read and re-ordering by KarmicGrief
in thread File read and re-ordering by KarmicGrief

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