Then it's up to you if you want to go to all the trouble of reading them all as one long string and then parsing each one "in job" once you determine what structure it is.
-craig
"You can never have too many knives" -- Logan Nine Fingers
India2000 wrote:no they aren't ..I'm seperating out header nd details..reading them ..
As long as each record has a record type field, you can handle different record types and multiple files using the file pattern option in the Complex Flat File stage.
I want to extract date value from the header for one of the columns in the output file from the fixed width flat file.I can't use the file with header with details for extracting.I want to know is there a way I can extract this header in a different file and then process.