Well, I'm quite satisfied today. Around 2002 (or 2003), I wrote a J script to parse an EDI 850 of Polo Ralph Lauren using J4 and splitting it into coherent arrays for one of our Scan and Pack logistic software. I forgot about it and I actually lost the source code.
Last week, my wife (who's an IT Manager for one of our factories in China) was having some problem with their current EDI parser and is getting really frustrated. Since I know that all that angst will be eventually taken out on me, I decided that it would be prudent to help her out. Hehehehe. Well, I remembered that old code that I wrote and called up the current Project Manager for the Scan and Pack software and they still have the code in their repository (don't you just love subversion?). Well, needless to say, the code work without change (just have to enable y. and x. support) in J602. :D Of course, there were some changes with the 850 definitions but it was so simple that my wife just change some noun definitions in one of the IJS files and it worked. It's been a while since I used language where you only need to change a few lines of code (I only added "9!:49 [1" to the top of the file) and get it to work on the latest version. No change, no recompile, no binary conflicts, no library conflicts ... r/Alex now .. if I just can get my head wrap around J forms ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
