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Hi,
I am having mulitple files with header and footer.I want to merge all the files into one file.The header in each of files is same but in the footer there are some statistics (like the total number of records) about the data in the file.
When I am going to merge all these files.I want only one header and footer for the final consolidated file. The footer of the final file should have sum of the statistics in each of the merging file.The header will be the same as is present in each of the file.
For example,The format of the file is as follows :-

****************************************
Header
****************************************









*****************************************
Statistics
Footer
*****************************************

Thanks
Tushar

Without samples of the "statistics" it is impossible to help.

Cheers
ZB

Hi zazzybob,
The footer has following details :-
1.Total number of records
2.Total sum calculated for all the records in the file

I hope it suffices the information required to determine the solution
Thanks and Regards
Tushar Johri