Kirti I needed to do something similar but it isn't due to bad normalisation it is to extract data in a load process so we don't have bad normalisation. I decided to use Java and built a parser in that and I just feed it a line and the code simply extracts that data on the selected delimiter. Mine the delimiter is a fixed value in code, it could be altered to use a runtime selected value. I can provide the source if it would be of use.
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