Re: changing two fields in a file

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 04:01 PM 8/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
> I am thinking this is easy but I have been
> able to really complicate it.
>
> I have a file where the record has 110 fields in it.   Two of
> those fields
> are to be changed, one from 1 alpha to 4 numeric, the other from 1
> numeric
> to 4 numeric.
The bitch is the alpha to numeric, because you must test for
non-numerics.  TESTN is the proper op code.  Then YOU have to
decide what to do with the bad data!

Al


> This seems to me to be a 15 line program but
> it isn't turning out that
> way.  Any ideas of a good fast algorithym to do it?

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