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kevinsamuel.abraham

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:34 pm
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I have a file which unfortunately does not have a fixed record format..

Code:
xxxxxxx       yyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxx  yyyyyyyy

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx            yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


As you can see from the above example ... there are two fields and the length of the fields are not uniform. they are seperated by spaces but even the number of spaces between them is not the same among he records...


Altough i am able to extract the first string by using delimited by space .. i have no idea asto how i can remove the extra spaces that lie before the second field ..
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:56 pm
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kevinsamuel.abraham wrote:
Altough i am able to extract the first string by using delimited by space .. i have no idea asto how i can remove the extra spaces that lie before the second field ..

DELIMITED BY ALL
One or more contiguous occurrences of any delimiters are treated as if they were only one occurrence; this one occurrence is moved to the delimiter receiving field (identifier-5), if specified. The delimiting characters in the sending field are treated as an elementary item of the same usage and category as identifier-1 and are moved into the current delimiter receiving field according to the rules of the MOVE statement.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:56 pm
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This TOPIC might help you.
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kevinsamuel.abraham

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:58 pm
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Thank you guys ...

Thi should solve my problem ..

Cheers - kev
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