Hi everyone!

I have a problem with trying to convert a file which has a single line text into fixed length multiple lines.

In Unix you can use the "Fold" command to determine the length but I cant find anything in DOS (or Windows scripting) that would perform the same function.

I WANT to read the file with a single line (of random length) and create a line break at x number of bytes along and then output the results into another file. So if the line in the file was 1000 bytes in length and I wanted a break at 100 bytes, I would end up with a file of 10 lines at 100 bytes in length each.

Thanks in advance, any help would be much appreciated.You didn't mention an OS, and a batch solution would only work on some OSes. This little VBScript should work on any Windows machine.

Code: [Select]Const ForReading = 1

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("[highlight]c:\unfold.txt[/highlight]", ForReading)
strLong = f.ReadAll
f.Close

Set f = fso.CreateTextFile("[highlight]c:\fold.txt[/highlight]")

i = 1
Do Until i > Len(strLong)
f.WriteLine Mid(strLong, i, 100)
i = i + 100
Loop
f.Close

The script was WRITTEN based on your specs, but can easily be changed for different length records. After saving the script with a vbs extension, run as cscript scriptname.vbs

Note: Change the HIGHLIGHTED file and path names to something appropriate.

8-)

Didn't have this is my SNIPPET closet, actually had to write this *gasp*

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Hi everyone!

I have a problem with trying to convert a file which has a single line text into fixed length multiple lines.

In Unix you can use the "Fold" command to determine the length but I cant find anything in DOS (or Windows scripting) that would perform the same function.

I want to read the file with a single line (of random length) and create a line break at x number of bytes along and then output the results into another file. So if the line in the file was 1000 bytes in length and I wanted a break at 100 bytes, I would end up with a file of 10 lines at 100 bytes in length each.

Thanks in advance, any help would be much appreciated.