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07-25-2012

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Howto add a constant column to the text file

Hi,
I am converting a .DBF file to pipe delimited file

my requirement is like

lets say my .DBF is residing in path /a/b/c/d/f/abc.DBF

I need my .txt file as
having a column with source _cd =f

sample data in .DBF in folder "f"
c1 c2 c3
1 2 3

in txt file it should be
c1|c2|c3|source_cd
1|2|3|f

i am suceeded in getting converted to 1|2|3
but having problem in how to get the Source_Cd from the path

regards
Angel

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