Hi Chris, Thanks. That was the problem!
I don't know why they changed the output format ... but using NotePad++ ... I can immediately see the jagged edges. @Bjorn, I was actually cutting the files the fourth time when I saw Chris message. Still ... thank you. r/Alex -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Burke Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:59 PM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] freadr messed up result Alex Rufon wrote: > Hi, > > This is a head scratcher. > > I've been using "freadr" to process outputs of an AS400 system. I've been > using this for years without a hitch. > > Now I've got data that becomes messed up if I read it with "freadr". To work > around the problem, I used: > > cutopen freads 'filename' > > Unfortunately, the problem file I'm processing is around 19MB so I can't > provide a sample. Each line of the file is delimited by CRLF. > > I know it's a bit vague but any ideas on the matter would be helpful. :) freadr requires the file to have fixed-length records. It sounds like this new file has records of varying length. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
