How big is file? Is order of records significant? Any other details?

BTW, you can specify pipe as field delimiter in APPEND FROM command instead of converting it.

>I have a data stream like below and I want to "walk" through it to parse out the different pieces. There are 7 identifiers that start each line, but in the example below FT1 and DG1 have wrapped; not normally the case. Without getting too deep into the various parts that are not actually field elements, I would like to work through the text and pull out the data to populate a table. It's a lot like a comma-delimieted file, but not quite. I did think about having different cursors for each of the 7 identifier lines, tranforming the "|" into a comma, and just doing an append - and maybe that is the best way - but wanted to see what others thought. Thanks!
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