Splitting text into files?

George Hincapie · 23 Feb 2015 at 12:17

I have a .txt that is full of individual messages. The messages are clearly demarked with a unique start and end - #*Conversation*# and #*End of Conversation*#.

What I want to do is to copy out each message between that start and end text and save it to individual text files.

What's the best way of going about that please?

George Hincapie · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:55

Thanks for those examples. I shall have a play about with those and see if I can get them to work. I'm amazed there isn't a Windows tool that does this. Provide the source, detail the start and end delimiters and specify the output type and off it goes...

George Hincapie · 23 Feb 2015 at 16:40

Thanks Pho.

So the data is resident in a .txt and the delimiters are:

#*Conversation*#
#*End of Conversation*#

I just need everything between each instance of those copied into a new .txt until it reaches the bottom of the original and stops. That's it. Thanks

George Hincapie · 23 Feb 2015 at 22:25

Legend! I'll try it and let you know. Now get some sleep

George Hincapie · 23 Feb 2015 at 22:39

Right, tried it and not sure if I am doing something wrong, but running the executable causes a command prompt window to appear for a second then disappear. The file input.txt is in the same directory as the executable.