Reading File In ODI

Hi All..,
I have a problem reading a file which doesn have delimiter.
Can anyone tell me the way to read file from source(File has one record of eg: 480 length) for fixed length in target(For length of 48 each record).
Source file has no delimiter.
How can it be done?

Hi,
Then try reversing with FIXED format.
http://mhimu.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/odi-how-to-reverse-flat-files/
Thanks,
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