Oh! Now i understand. Yes, the first line is a delimiter line, but I already know what that delimiter is, I don't need to read the first record to discover what it is. Sorry if I was unclear.
Anyway, thank you again for your help! Shimon On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 November 2012 18:16, Shimon Lebowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rob, > > Thank you! > > I did not really understand the point of the first bit of code, > > adding the * to records seemed unnecessary if I already know the > delimiting > > string. > > Sure, if you know how the sections are separated, then you can code it > like that. You phrased it such that it seemed the delimiter was > defined by the first record of the input file, so I showed off with > "lookup" :-) > > Rob >
