Hi all, I have a file to disassemble and I'm thinking Perl might be the way forward.

Sample data:

0004$ADAM0002*330004%19770004$BOB 0002*430004%1967

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There are 3 data types in here that I need to split into separate files. Each data type is prefixed by the record length as the length may vary (but doesn't in this example)

So ... 1st record type '$' is 0004 length so it's value is 'ADAM', 2nd record type is '*' which is 0002 length so it's value is '33' and so on.

The record types may not appear in this order also.

End desired result is 3 files looking like:

dollar.txt
ADAM
BOB

asterisk.txt
33
43

percent.txt
1977
1967

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I'm a complete novice when it comes to Perl so some code to get me started or links to similar examples would be massively appreciated!

Cheers, Monty

In reply to Splitting file into separate files based on record lengths and identifiers by monty77

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