Well, I thought I was better at this than I am and I've got a problem I need some help with. I thought this would be simple, but at least right now, apparently I'm brain dead...

Here's the problem... I have a file called import.txt, the file layout looks like this...

4323
Name of COMPANY
Light
no
no
no
no
no
no

4325
Name of next company
#N/A
no
no
no
no
no
no

Each record is exactly the same size, seperated by a SPACE. Here's what I would like the batch file to do...

read import.txt
Create a file from the first line of each record, i.e., 4323.txt
insert the next eight lines exactly as shown
move the the next record and do it all again until all the records are seperate files.

Thanks in advance for any help, I really appreciate it!
Gary
download gawk for WINDOWS, then use this one liner

Code: [Select]C:\test>gawk -vRS= -vFS="\n" "{print $0 > $1\".txt\"}" file

C:\test>more 4325.txt
4325
Name of next company
#N/A
no
no
no
no
no
no

C:\test>more 4323.txt
4323
Name of Company
Light
no
no
no
no
no
no
I wanted to share the answer with anyone who might have been interested in this problem.  It came from a different forum I'm a member of, from a guy named aGerman.  Here's his reply...

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It's not that easy. Maybe it will fail if the number of lines is greater than the 32bit LIMIT for numeric expressions in batch.


Code:
echo off &setlocal
set "empty=0"
for /f "delims=: tokens=1*" %%a in ('findstr /n "^" "import.txt"') do (
  if "%%b"=="" (
    call set "empty=%%empty%% %%a"
  ) else (
    set "line_%%a=%%b"
  )
)

for %%a in (%empty%) do (
  set /a nameLine=%%a+1
  set /a startLine=%%a+2
  set /a endLine=%%a+9
  call :proc
)
goto :eof

:proc
call set "name=%%line_%nameLine%%%.txt
if "%name%"==".txt" goto :eof
>"%name%" type nul
for /l %%a in (%startLine%,1,%endLine%) do (
>>"%name%" call echo.%%line_%%a%%
)
goto :eof




This code should work if the separator is an empty line.
But you wrote the separator is a space. If this is realy true you have to replace:

Code:
  if "%%b"==" " (

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