Great! Thanks, Rob. On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 8:05 AM Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think Kris once did a PUTFILES REXX that implemented one or two of the > common techniques. > > When your records are sorted on output file, you can do a sipping pipeline > that takes all records for the same output in each sip. Something like > do forever > 'peekto line' > parse var line tag . > 'callpipe *: | pick to w1 /== /'tag'/ | > ' tag 'output a' > end > > When the records are not sorted (or can't be sorted because you are > processing live data) you could try appending to files, but it gets nasty > to remember which ones to erase first. So the popular one in that case is > to make a recursive pipeline that diverts records for each output file. > Like this: > > do forever > 'peekto line' > parse var line name . > 'addpipe (end \) *,input: | p: pick w1 == /'name'/ | >' name 'output > a ', > '\ p: | *.input:' > end > > Sir Rob the Plumber > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 14:56, Rich Smrcina <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there a way to split a file into multiple files with the output names > > being a part of the input? > > > > Given something like this: > > > > 1 2 name1 3 4 > > 3 4 name2 4 5 > > 4 5 name2 5 6 > > 5 6 name3 6 7 > > > > Ignore the numbers, they just represent other fields. I would like to > split > > that into files with the names of the third field. I won't necessarily > know > > the values, so a large 'if' type structure won't work. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Rich Smrcina > > > -- Rich Smrcina
