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I wrote an SSIS package which imports data from a fixed record length flat file into a SQL table. Within a single file, the record length is constant, but different files may have different record lengths. Each record ends with a CR/LF. How can I make it detect where the end of the record is, and use that length when importing it?
This may not work for everyone, but what I ended up doing was simply setting it to a delimited flat file and setting CR/LF as the row delimiter, and leaving the column delimiter and text qualifier blank. This won’t work if you actually need to have it split out columns in the import, but I was already using a Derived Column task to do the actual column splitting, because my column positions are variable, so it worked fine.