In a python program I would use the "encoding" option of the "open()" function,
something like this:
file1 = open("file1.name", mode="r", encoding="utf-8")
Or "ISO8859" if you prefer.
Or change the tag on the file before you run your program to tell the system
what is really in there.
What does the command "chtag -p file1.name" tell you?
HTH
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Colin Paice
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 3:34 PM
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Subject: reading an ascii file
If I open a normal OMVS file with fopen(..,"r") and use fgets I get the
first line of the file.
However If this is a tagged file eg python file(in ascii) so it has *ls -T
my.py* of IBM8859-1 , I get the whole file read in ( presumably because
there were no x15 characters to say end of line)
Are there any options I need to specify at fopen/fread/fgets which will
allow me to read the file line by line.
I'm thinking I'll have to read a big chunk from the file, convert ASCII to
EBCDIC, and search for x15 to split the line up
Colin
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