Hi,
I am having an flat file in fixed width format
how could I find from this from what width to what width the a particular field is
do the person who created it have to tell me or is thare any other method, I am new to flat files
second question is how could we find how many records are present in the flat file
thanks
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Of course, you may be able to discern what's in what column by inspection but you would need to be lucky (for example string, number, string, number kind of layout). For all numeric data it's far more difficult.
Of course, you may be able to discern what's in what column by inspection but you would need to be lucky (for example string, number, string, number kind of layout). For all numeric data it's far more difficult.
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