RE: PC file Layouts ??

[Bob Crothers <bcrothers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a couple of class's that make manipulating CSV files very 
easy.  Including handling double quotes and tab delimited files.

The problem (for most anyway) is that they are in C++, not RPG.

If you do C++, I'd be happy to share them.  The other issue is 
that currently, they use Microsoft MFC foundation class's 
(CstdIO/CFile & Cstring is all) but it would very easy to 
replace this part.

Regards,
Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications




-----Original Message-----
From:   Leland, David [SMTP:dleland@harter.com]
Sent:   Thursday, December 11, 1997 8:45 AM
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:        RE: PC file Layouts ??

John:

Yes, I saw the article, but notice his caveat about doubling up 
on
double quotes.  Unless your data never has double quotes in it, 
your
really do need to resolve this, and that's what I was wondering 
about.
BTW, Ted's article is fine, but it doesn't let you use any file, 
only
the specific one in the program.

Dave

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>From:  John Carr[SMTP:74711.77@compuserve.com]
>Sent:  Wednesday, December 10, 1997 5:59 PM
>To:    Midrange-L
>Subject:       RE: PC file Layouts ??
>
>
>
>RE:    RE: PC file Layouts ??
>Dave
>
>Even better,    All I did was just to  key in the two programs 
in this
>month's issue of MIDRANGE COMPUTING.   (Dec 97) an article by 
TED HOLT
>page 86.
>(same as Art)
>
>I have been playing around with the idea for a while.
>
>If you can't get the mag.  let me know.
>
>John Carr
>
>If you ever do get this info, please share it.  I've wanted to 
do this
>for some time now but was always stymied by exactly the same 
thing
>you're looking at.
>
>Dave
>
>p.s.  Creating the .CSV is not that easy of a thing to do 
either.  Care
>to share your code?  I've written one as well but have not 
taken the
>extra step of doubling up on double quotes where they exist 
within the
>data.
>
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>>From:         John Carr[SMTP:74711.77@compuserve.com]
>>Sent:         Wednesday, December 10, 1997 7:34 AM
>>To:   Midrange-L
>>Subject:      PC file Layouts ??
>>
>>
>>Hi All
>>
>>Ok  I have working RPG programs that can READ from and WRITE 
to the IFS
>>directly
>>using API's  (Thanks Jon, Ray, and Ted).
>>
>>I can make/writeto  .TXT types and .CSV types and can Read 
from most
>>any
>>type.
>>
>>I would like to read a AS/400 data base file and "Drop" that 
info
>>straight
>>into an Excel  .XLS
>>type file.  (I know what you're gonna say,  Good luck).    I 
have Read
>>in a
>>simple spread sheet
>>with only 2 rows and 3 columns just to look at the stuff in 
debug as it
>>was
>>comming across.    Weird stuff.
>>
>>My question is;  does anyone know how to figure out the "File 
Layout"
>>of
>>various PC file types?
>>Most importantly a .XLS spreadsheet type?
>>
>>It's like ""working with a program described file which only 
contains
>>binary & alpha fields and you don't
>>have the layout or manual""      I can reverse engineer what 
the
>>different
>>bytes are but it would take a
>>lot of time.
>>
>>Anybody have a clue as to how to go about this??
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>BTW  the programs are really NEAT stuff.   I can read in a PF 
(which I
>>have
>>filled via a CPYFRMSPLF
>> report.  and then write that stuff directly to a .TXT type 
file on the
>>IFS
>>directory  which then can be
>>used by users to read or email(via attachments).    Neat stuff
>>
>>John Carr
>>EdgeTech
>>
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