Sorry, I dont know if this is the right group, but here goes anyway. I have a text file containing a document (eg this posting) which is formatted as such. I need to import this into a database, and so I need to format the text to do this. I want the text to be 'cut' every 300 or so characters, and then create a flat file from this, with line numbers. eg. "1","blah blah bla" # (300 characters of blah) "2","h blah blah b" # (and again)
I need to get rid of the carriage returns, and it would be preferable to get rid of the too much whitespace. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can go about this? The only thing I can do so far is stick the text into a single line, and 'split -b300', and then I 'more * >'. And then I am stuck. (clearly a bad plan anyway!) Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, DANIEL D'SOUZA
