On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:04:30 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >I've got a dataset that has been mangled through some misguided efforts such >that original record boundaries have been lost. It used to be RECFM=V and >now it is RECFM=F > Surely not FTP!?
>As luck would have it, every original record begins with the same hex value. >Can anyone suggest a simple tool -- z/OS, USS, or Windows -- that would >reformat the records breaking on every occurrence of a particular byte >value? > I'd just write a Rexx program: read; concatenate; parse; rinse; repeat. John M. would likely use Perl. Also try tr(1) under USS. But that might introduce more false positives if your delimiter is not 0x15. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
