On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:49:22 -0500 Don V Nielsen <donvnielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a need for something that can parse and load into sqlite tables
> fixed length data.
Insert your own separators.
$ cat input
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425
Print two 5-byte ranges separated by ", ".
$ awk '{ OFS=", "; print substr($0, 1, 5), substr($0, 6, 5); }' \
input
12345, 67891
--jkl

