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Parsing a vertically strctured flat file

  • 1.  Parsing a vertically strctured flat file

    Posted 01/28/04 01:23 AM

    I want to parse a “vertically structured” file so if I have the following - A PO wraps a header (PH) and line item (PL) Is it possible to have the fields of the header on separate lines based on their position after the PH line without a descriptor? Or do they have to go in fixed width format across the line?

    (fields are below record in order they appear without record descriptor):
    PO
    PH
    00002
    My Header
    PL
    1234

    Second option (fields are beside record descriptor in fixed format):

    PO
    PH00002My Header
    PL1234

    or (every line has a record descriptor):
    PO
    PH
    LN00002
    MHMy Header
    PL
    PLN1234


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