Parse Function to retrieve varying fields from a VB file

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akjs
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Parse Function to retrieve varying fields from a VB file

Post by akjs » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:24 pm

Hi my requirement is to read an Variable block( VB) file and retrieve records based on the filtration criteria into a VB file.

Note: Also there are few records which are shorter in length.

Input:
dfdskjklsadksadka<M data to be extracted:Ksdafsaffsadfsd
sdfdfsa<Msome data to be retrieved:Kfdsaafafadfafafds

Output:
data to be extracted
some data to be retrieved

Note: The data to be extracted will be in between <M and :K. But the length of the string is not fixed nor the position of delimiters <M and :K is fixed.

I have searched for this in the forum, the available requirement till now posted is only FB file or the length of string to be extracted between delimiters is fixed.

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