Header records are generated from the column names; blank records, leading and trailing blanks are removed; TABs are inserted between columns. Column arguments without the offset,length specification are inserted in the appropriate place in the output as empty columns.

$ see < junk
920102101     25000       $
920102211.1          25000$
920103150.1   10000       $
920103101             5000$

In junk, the first six bytes (1-6) contain the date; the next six bytes (7-12) contain the account number; the next seven bytes (13-19) are the debit column; and the last seven bytes (20-26) are the credit column.

$ fixtotable Acct=7,6 Debit=13,7 Credit=20,7 Detail < junk | see
Acct^IDebit^ICredit^IDetail$
----^I-----^I------^I------$
101^I25000i^I^I$
211.1^I^I25000^I$
150.1^I10000^I$
101^I^I5000^I$