in reply to Re: Split up file depending unique values 1st column
in thread Split up file depending unique values 1st column

This does work. The number of output files is always less then 10. I'll have to work on the sort as I get a warning
Sorted input from file.txt had unusable data at line 1:
Though it works and I think I'll be able to understand what's going on. Many thanks,
Gert