Processing bank files

Hi everyone.
I have a text file, filled with information provided by the bank where my company has an account. The information contained in it has to be imported into the company's system.
The file contains a series of fields: numeric and alphanumeric. The length of a field is not static, I mean a numeric / alphanumeric field can be of 1 byte syze it can be bigger (2 bytes).
I was thinking of using Scanner to tokenize the file, the problem is: the file doesnt have a separator character to isolate fields. Then I tought of using Scanner Wrapper methods (getNextDouble()... getNextXXX()) but I fear I cant use it because the legth of fields is dynamic.
Anybody suggest sth...
I am in trouble..
Thanks in advance

Yeah
It might have non printable characters.
One thing I know, the field values come all togheter inside the file. So the following sequence can be the values of multiple fields (numeric and alphanumeric)
200012555C548JJT
Fields in the specification have a sequence number, so You know exactly what the next field value is. I dont know how to retrieve the values from inside the file yet. I cant use for example getNextDouble() from Scanner class? It might get lost when encountering a alphanumeric character? or will it distinguish the characters that compose a number?

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