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Old 10-02-2014
Inserting delimiter after a specific number of chars
Hello guys,

I have a problem where I need to add a delimiter, that can be | for example, after each 28000 chars.

The problem is that sometimes 1 row, which should contain 28000 chars is split in 2, so I want to put the delimiter after each 28000 so I will know the end of each row.

Please let me know of it doesn't make sense.

Thanks all
Last edited by rbatte1; 10-03-2014 at 12:50 PM.. Reason: Added ICODE tags round the pipe delimeter to highlight it better
# 2  
Old 10-02-2014
Welcome to the forum Diogo R Jesus.

It would be most helpful if you can post a relevant portion of the input you intend to use, an example of the expected output and lastly but not least, any script showing any efforts you have already tried.
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Old 10-03-2014
Perhaps an example working on an expected 30 characters would be more appropriate than a 28,000 character wide input!

Are you saying that you sometime get the input:-
Code:
123456789012345678901234567890
123456789012345678901234567890
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
123456789012345678901234567890

.... and you want the output:-
Code:
123456789012345678901234567890|
123456789012345678901234567890|
123456789012345678901234567890|123456789012345678901234567890
123456789012345678901234567890|


Have I understood you correctly?



Robin
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