>I have a large (4 MB) text file that contains lines like those below. Is there a way, maybe using StrToFile(), that I can send the different blocks to separate files? I want to include the header between the dashed lines as well as the detail before the next header.
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>00000015 Copy this block into a file called Import.txt and put into appropriate Export directory
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>1,HIPAA,HIPAA,20080102,EXP_00D7280001.TIF
>1,Office Notes,Office Notes,20080102,EXP_00D7260001.TIF
>1,Prescriptions,Prescriptions,20080102,EXP_00D7160001.TIF
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>00000016 Copy this block into a file called Import.txt and put into appropriate Export directory
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>1,HIPAA,HIPAA,20080102,EXP_00D7280001.TIF
>1,Office Notes,Office Notes,20080102,EXP_00D7260001.TIF
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String functions such as AT(), SUBSTR(), etc. would work, but may be slow. The best results you may achieve with Windows API functions here. I saw samples a while ago on Russian website, do you want me to look them up?