Probably best to write a custom data format to handle this. Parse the whole
file into a list records, where each record starts with the data in the
initiator and contains all data up to the next initiator. Writing data
formats is not that tough.

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:38 AM, megachucky <megachu...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Here is my use case:
>
> I need to split a CSV file which contains orders. Parsing rules of this CSV
> are very simple:
>
> - Each order has several lines (no fix number)
>
> - Each order begins with one line (initiator):
> 111;222;dynamic content
>
> - Each order ends with two lines (terminator)
> 111;333;dynamic content
> 111;333;dynamic content
>
> Initiator and terminator have to be included in the outcome of the split.
>
> I am not sure which supported Expression Language
> (http://camel.apache.org/expression.html) is best for this kind of use
> case?
> I think this can be solved with a regular expression easily (mabye within a
> POJO). What do you think? What is best practice? Thanks for help...
>
> Best regards,
> Kai
>
>
>
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