[ILUG] Breaking up an input stream

[Kenn Humborg]

> Kenn
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Unfortunately, I made a typo in my original message. The Records are
> delimited by FF characters, not LF (a case of habit taking over 
> my typing!)
> yet each record can contain text lines delimited by LF or CR/LF. 
> Is there a
> version of split which allows you to specify the line delimiter? 
> That would
> be perfect.

Don't know of an off-the-shelf to do this.  I'd just write a
little C program (but I'm sure others would use Perl).

Later,
Kenn