Help script for conditional skip

Question

Hi all,
I am having problems to set up a script to skip lines from an import file containing total accounts.
My file format only contains 2 columns Acct and value.
The trigger to identify the total lines that should be ignored is given by the account length:
if account length record n < account length record n+1 , then skip, else keep.
here an example:
Account: Value: | Acct length: | Commets
11 $800 | 2<3? | is total, should be ignored
111 $300 | 3<4? | is total, should be ignored
1111 $100 | 4<4? | is base, should be read
1112 $200 | 4<3? | is base, should be read
112 $500 | 3<...? | is base, should be read
12
Any help on how to write a script linking record n to n+1?
thanks!!
Edited by: Diego_P on Nov 1, 2009 11:22 AM
Edited by: Diego_P on Nov 1, 2009 11:24 AM

Answer 1

Is this a delimited import format?
Do you have to do this through a script?
You could just put the following in the Like map to ignore the total columns when validating:
?? map to Ignore
??? map to Ignore