> Kenn
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> Unfortunately, I made a typo in my original message. The Records are
> delimited by FF characters, not LF (a case of habit taking over
> my typing!)
> yet each record can contain text lines delimited by LF or CR/LF.
> Is there a
> version of split which allows you to specify the line delimiter?
> That would
> be perfect.
Don't know of an off-the-shelf to do this. I'd just write a
little C program (but I'm sure others would use Perl).
Later,
Kenn
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