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Splitting a text file into seperate text files.

I get a text file with a long list of filenames that looks like this:

a52372,CH-A-00-00-02-00A-040A-A
a58758,CH-A-00-00-03-00A-012B-A
a58759,CH-A-00-00-03-00A-012B-A
a58760,CH-A-00-00-03-00A-012B-A
a65855,CH-A-06-40-00-00A-010A-A
a58883,CH-A-06-40-01-00A-540A-A
a58884,CH-A-06-40-01-00A-540A-A
a65855,CH-A-06-40-01-00A-540A-A
a62128,CH-A-06-40-01-00A-540A-A
a65817,CH-A-08-40-00-00A-030A-A
a65818,CH-A-08-40-00-00A-030A-A
a53077,CH-A-08-40-00-00A-030A-A

I need to be able to send all the files with CH-A-00 to one file and CH-A-06 to another and CH-A-08 to another and so on. The number in the 13th and 14th position determines what file they need to go. I can't grep those positions because they change and I never know what they're going to be. The letters in front of those postions change to.

Is there a way to cut that number out and save it to a variable then use the variable in a for loop or if statement then goto the next line?

jas
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That looks like what I want to do but where do you tell it what file it is reading from?
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Never mind the last comment. I figured it out. I'm going to try to work in the textfiles I need. I think this will work.
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Excellent. I was really stuck. I couldn't get the thing to slow down and read the file one line at a time.

Thanks much,

jas
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You're welcome.  Just glad I could help.