Removing date values lines/records from a file

selvamsrinivasan85 · New User Joined: 09 Aug 2010 Posts: 33 Location: Chennai

Hi all,
I am having a file that contains a XML extract. I need to read the file and remove the date value records. Main condition is I have to keep the first date value record and remove the following date value records.

Sample records in file:

Line1
Line2
Line3
Date1
Date2
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Date 1
Date 2
Date 3
Date 4

As you see, Date value and line records can be of any record. I need to keep the Date 1 record alone and need to remove date 2, date3 and date4.

Output:
Line1
Line2
Line3
Date1
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Date 1

Date values also not consistent. Can someone throw light on this?. I will pick it up.

sergeyken · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:15 pm

Where is XML?

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:11 pm

It’s not clear at all what you explained , but based on what you say you better off writing the COBOL program quickly.