Importing Big Text fields with <CR><LF> in them

Env : SLQSERVER2000 - DTS

I want to import a text file with 3 fields in it ...

F1: Ident char(3)
F2: Note (Text) char(32,000) yeah big eh!
F3: Date

Field F2: has <CR><LF> thru it, this means the DTS import thinks its a
multiple records to deal with as each row is also delimited by <CR><LF>,
of course this causes problems when loading to the receiving table. The
import creates new records.

Hence is there a way to filter these formatting characters out easily
without disrupting the row delimiter. Using a VbScript, if anyone has
done this I'd be grateful of a copy of the script or utility.

The source of the file (IBM Iseries base app) cannot change the output
format.

Thanks in advance

Paul

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> Env : SLQSERVER2000 - DTS
> I want to import a text file with 3 fields in it ...
> F1: Ident char(3)
> F2: Note (Text) char(32,000) yeah big eh!
> F3: Date
> Field F2: has <CR><LF> thru it, this means the DTS import thinks its a
> multiple records to deal with as each row is also delimited by <CR><LF>,
> of course this causes problems when loading to the receiving table. The
> import creates new records.
> Hence is there a way to filter these formatting characters out easily
> without disrupting the row delimiter. Using a VbScript, if anyone has
> done this I'd be grateful of a copy of the script or utility.
> The source of the file (IBM Iseries base app) cannot change the output
> format.
> Thanks in advance
> Paul
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If the input file has fixed-width columns, then DTS should still work,
although you may need to set up the text file connection definition from a
script rather than with the interface. Alternatively, you could run the
input file through a script written in Perl, VB, C# etc. to replace the
delimiters with something else before loading it with DTS.

Simon