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Re: Validating input file

by "HeyBub" <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Alain Reymond wrote:
> jeff a écrit :
>> On May 13, 10:27 am, Howard Brazee <how...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 06:37:11 -0700 (PDT), jeff <jmoore...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a input rec coming from a customer that is defined as
>>>>
>>>> FD  DISCFILE.
>>>> 01  DISC-REC               PIC X(129).
>>>> 01  DISC-REC2 REDEFINES DISC-REC.
>>>>     03  DISC-RECR OCCURS 129  PIC X.
>>>>
>>>> It is a comma-delimited file with 16 fields (15 commas). I need to
>>>> check and make sure that each line is only 129 characters and I
>>>> assume 1 LF. What would be the best way to accomplish this?
>>>>
>>> Are you reading an ASCII file from one Windows machine to another
>>> Windows machine?
>>>
>>
>> Unix ascii file
>>
> Jeff, if you use line sequential files, you should not have to care
> about the LF. The records will be 129 chars long.
> Then, use unstring :
> 1 my-record.
>    2 my-field pic(129) occurs 16.
> ....
>
>                   unstring DISC-REC
>                       delimited by ";" or "," or x'09'
>                       into
>                            my-field(01),
>                            my-field(02),
>                            my-field(03),
>                            my-field(04),
>                            my-field(05),
>                            my-field(06),
>                            my-field(07),
>                            my-field(08),
>                            my-field(09),
>                            my-field(10),
>                            my-field(11),
>                            my-field(12),
>                            my-field(13),
>                            my-field(14),
>                            my-field(15),
>                            my-field(16)
>                   end-unstring
>
>

Or, my favored technique:

    MOVE 1 TO DISC-POINTER.
    PERFORM VARYING I FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL I > 16
        UNSTRING DISC-REC DELIMITED BY ',' INTO MY-FIELD(I)
            WITH POINTER DISC-POINTER
    END-PERFORM
 




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Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 06:37:11 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 07:02:32 
Re: Validating input file
"Rick Smith" &l  2008-05-13 10:10:46 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 07:19:17 
Re: Validating input file
"Rick Smith" &l  2008-05-13 11:22:00 
Re: Validating input file
Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-05-13 08:27:03 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 07:29:57 
Re: Validating input file
Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-05-13 09:05:10 
Re: Validating input file
Alain Reymond <arwebma  2008-05-13 17:15:12 
Re: Validating input file
"HeyBub" <he  2008-05-13 12:55:55 
Re: Validating input file
Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-05-13 09:44:30 
Re: Validating input file
"HeyBub" <he  2008-05-13 10:07:26 
Re: Validating input file
Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-05-13 09:20:32 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 08:12:00 
Re: Validating input file
"HeyBub" <he  2008-05-13 12:51:13 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 08:51:02 
Re: Validating input file
Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-05-13 10:17:53 
Re: Validating input file
"Rick Smith" &l  2008-05-13 12:46:06 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 09:21:54 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 10:03:50 
Re: Validating input file
"Rick Smith" &l  2008-05-13 13:38:03 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 10:07:31 
Re: Validating input file
jeff <jmoore207@[EMAIL  2008-05-13 10:42:37 
Re: Validating input file
"Rick Smith" &l  2008-05-13 14:24:42 
Re: Validating input file
"William M. Klein&qu  2008-05-13 23:14:07 
Re: Validating input file
Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@[  2008-05-13 21:37:46 
Re: Validating input file
Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-13 21:13:33 
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"William M. Klein&qu  2008-05-14 02:21:22 
Re: Validating input file
"Rick Smith" &l  2008-05-13 23:03:21 
Re: Validating input file
Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-13 21:35:08 
Re: Validating input file
Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-14 00:11:29 
Re: Validating input file
"Michael Mattias&quo  2008-05-14 08:38:24 

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