Hi Josep > The file come from a PC-MSDOS with a old ACUCOBOL-GT application, it's the > customer file data, I have the File Definition with the structure of record.
Then the test will be ASCII encoded so you don't need to worry about having to convert the text; > It's a one-off conversion but I have many files to convert. > > So my plan was read the file as chunks of bytes, and for each record (divide > the lenght of the file by the lenght of a record) get the chars for each > field. Making a conversion for the comp-3 and comp-6 data. That sounds feasible. One thing that you may need to watch out for is that the records may have been padded by COBOL when written. For example, a PIC9(5) COMP-3 file could possibly be padded with one byte so that it takes a multiple of either 2 or 4 bytes. Regards Peter _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
