Carlos What other things does edifrmat do? That will give me an initial list of features ;-)
I don't use Gentran, so I don't have the syntax. To: "Tembe, Suhas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:15:59 -0400 Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Gentran edifrmat replacement on Unix? > That's fine if I know what the terminators are to begin with. But what I > really need is to get ISA106 to identify the terminator, and then do the > replace. This is what the Gentran edifrmat utility does (among other > things). > > Carlos M. Garcia > 305-552-4549 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > "Tembe, Suhas" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > astics.com> cc: > [email protected] > Subject: RE: [EDI-L] > Gentran edifrmat replacement on Unix? > 04/11/2007 03:10 PM > > > > > > > > > > Assuming that the segment terminator will not appear anywhere else in the > data, why not use the 'tr' command: > > tr '}' '\n' < inpfile > t_outfile > tr '@' '\n' < t_outfile > outfile > > Not elegant, but should work. There is no need to look at ISA106. If it > finds '}', the tr command is going to replace it. If not, nothing happens. > You can have the above commands in a shell script, pass the input file name > to it & let it create a output file. You just have to account for all the > different types of segment terminators. You could also have just one tr > command in a for loop passing it the character to be replaced. > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:42 PM > To: Hurd, Richard [SLCUS] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Gentran edifrmat replacement on Unix? > > > > The softshare tool is Windows-based. I need to write a Unix script (AWK?, > SED?) to parse a file with multiple ISAs and multiple ISA106 characters, as > occurs when I receive a file from the VAN with multiple partners' data. > I've played around with td and some other native Unix, and I can handle the > situation where the ISA106 is consistent, but not when it changes from ISA > to ISA. In a nustshell, what I need to do is capture the ISA106 of the > first ISA and replace the entire envelope with a \015, then capture the > ISA106 from the next ISA, and so on. It'll be clearer from the example > below. In here, I have 2 ISAs, one with ISA106=} and another with [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > The end result I want is also below: > > Input: > > ISA~00~ ~00~ ~01~123456789 ~16~999999999 > ~070410~0928~U~00400~000000277~0~P~>}GS~FA~123456789~999999999~20070410~0928~277~X~004010}ST~997~0419}AK1~PO~809}AK2~850~0001}AK5~A}AK9~A~1~1~1}SE~6~0419}GE~1~277}IEA~1~000000277}ISA~00~ > ~00~ ~14~222222222 ~16~999999999 > ~070410~0831~U~00400~000013464~0~P~>@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL > PROTECTED]@IEA~1~000013464@ > > > Output: > > ISA~00~ ~00~ ~01~123456789 ~16~999999999 > ~070410~0928~U~00400~000000277~0~P~> > GS~FA~123456789~999999999~20070410~0928~277~X~004010 > ST~997~0419 > AK1~PO~809 > AK2~850~0001 > AK5~A > AK9~A~1~1~1 > SE~6~0419 > GE~1~277 > IEA~1~000000277 > ISA~00~ ~00~ ~14~222222222 ~16~999999999 > ~070410~0831~U~00400~000013464~0~P~> > GS~PR~222222222~999999999~20070410~0831~13464~X~004010 > ST~855~0001 > BAK~06~AC~3000111134~20070406~~~~~20070410 > N1~ST~COMPANY NAME~92~096600 > N1~VN~VENDORXXXXXX > PID~F~~~~TEXT DESCRIPTION > ACK~AC~1~EA~017~20070417 > CTT~1 > SE~9~0001 > GE~1~13464 > IEA~1~000013464 > > "Hurd, Richard > [SLCUS]" To: "ec_edi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: > .com> Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Gentran edifrmat replacement on Unix? > > 04/11/2007 02:11 > PM > > > > I remember doing something like that with 'awk' but it wouldn't be as nice > as a fullblown tool. > > With awk, if you set the record separator to the 106th byte in the ISA > record, and the field separator to the fourth byte, you can use it to do > rudimentary parsing. > > Much easier to use a tool like the Softshare one. Must go find that one on > their web site. :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EDI-L] Gentran edifrmat replacement on Unix? > > I'm looking to mimic what Gentran's edifrmat command does using a unix > script or command. We are removing Gentran but would like the > functionality provided by edifrmat, for example, when viewing EDI > files, we run edifrmat on the file and redirect the output to a text > file that we can then read, with carriage returnes, etc. We'd like to > have a similar capability with simple command line Unix. My thinking > is we need to parse through an EDI file, extract poswition 106 from > the ISA, and replace it with a CR. 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