Integer was on purpose. One of the fields was 14 digits number. Usually I parse EBCDIC directly on mainframe. This time it was exception.
Bartek On Thursday 04 June 2009 22:38:53 Michael Snoyman wrote: > I *do* know what Packed Decimal is; at my previous job, I actually had a > whole Haskell library for parsing them. The only immediate suggestion that > pops to mind is to use Int instead of Integer (Int uses regular 32- or > 64-bit integers, Integer uses arbitrary precision integers). If you send me > a sample Packed Decimal file, I can test out your code and get a better > feel for it that way. > > Good luck with those mainframes, they can be beasts sometimes. Have you had > to parse EBCDIC yet? *That* was fun, manually copying all those character > codes from some IBM web page... ;) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
