Flat Files Queries

Hi All,
I want to know two things in flat files.

1)Is there any way to check duplicate records in a flat file.

2)For example if we have 0000304000 i want to extract 30 , whichever position it comes.How can we acheive this?

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Hi Amruth,

please provide your wM version.

What would be the business use case for the questions you have asked?
This would help us to provide better assistance.

Regards,
Holger