Splitting file contents ....Help!!

Question

I have a file that contain several records of the same pattern.
For example:
Name: John Mark
Adress: 2380 Blue St LA
Phone#: [phone]
SSN: 8999900000
Age: 2001
Name: Denis Mary
Address 5050 Red st WA
Phone# [phone]
SSN 000111222333
Age 8899
This file contain records of 10 or more people. I have a script that picks up this file from an ftp server. Each time I pick up this file, it comes in with a new record, or even two new records added to the
records that already exist in the file.
My job is to extract the latest records from this file, parse it, and get the social SSN of the new records.
The latest record(s) are always at the end of the file. The file name is always the same.
How can I extract the latest record(s) from this file after I pick it up from the ftp server?
I have a script that works only if the file contains just one record. Right now, when I pick up a file that contains several records, my script grabs the SSN of the record at the top. And that is wrong.
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

CyprayDeJava wrote:
I have a file that contain several records of the same pattern.
For example:
Name: John Mark
Adress: 2380 Blue St LA
Phone#: [phone]
SSN: 8999900000
Age: 2001
Name: Denis Mary
Address 5050 Red st WA
Phone# [phone]
SSN 000111222333
Age 8899
This file contain records of 10 or more people. I have a script that picks up this file from an ftp server. Each time I pick up this file, it comes in with a new record, or even two new records added to the
records that already exist in the file.
My job is to extract the latest records from this file, parse it, and get the social SSN of the new records.
The latest record(s) are always at the end of the file. The file name is always the same.
How can I extract the latest record(s) from this file after I pick it up from the ftp server?
I have a script that works only if the file contains just one record. Right now, when I pick up a file that contains several records, my script grabs the SSN of the record at the top. And that is wrong.
Thanks for your helpyou need to traverse to the SSN line and aquire the numeric value
I see in your input text file that you have a line seperation after each data, think how u would get to the last data
once u get to your last data go three lines down to the line containing the SSN and extract the numeric value
You can use the below method to acquire the SSN value
private static int SplitInt(String line)throws Exception{ // u should pass the scanned line to the method parameter
       String array[]= line.split("\\s+"); //splits on space if my regx memory is correct
        return Integer.parseInt(array[array.length-1]); // returns the numeric value which is the last element of the String array[]
}