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yogesh.jamdar
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techies,
I have a tab delimted file with variable length (max 27924). It has minimum 29 records of diffferent layout (each line different). Each record is having data separated by TAB. Is there a way to convert this into FIXED length format (layuot available)??
Pls advise.
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superk
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| Using REXX? Sure, the PARSE function will make easy work of it by using the tab character as the field delimiter. |
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yogesh.jamdar
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| thanks..wanted to confirm..tried in Cobol by doing an unstring but was getting difficult...had to read to the file byte by byte......hope REXX helps... |
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superk
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| Just want to mention that this is also easily handled with products like SAS and DFSORT. |
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