Re. formatting, have a read of the link shmem gave you and just have a play around to see what works, trying things out on your private scratchpad which you can find on your home node. <p> and <code> ... </code> tags are your friends.

So, further questions.

Do you want to capture the possible name on line 3 or will you always use the one on line 4?

Are the a/c nos. on lines 8 and 11 the same and do you want to capture just one of them?

Are the dates ddMMMyyyy or dd MMM yyyy? It looks like the latter.

Is information on line 18 significant or is it just a marker with the meat starting on line 19 et seq.?

How many output fields, what order, what widths and what pad character? What is your policy on truncating data that is too wide?

I think that given answers to the above I can (without writing your whole application for you :-) make some suggestions and code pointers on how you can proceed.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re^3: File read and re-ordering by johngg
in thread File read and re-ordering by KarmicGrief

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