Re: Importing fencepost-delimited ASCII data

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

James,

You could use Scott Klement's routines for accessing IFS (root) files
within a RPG program (www.scottklement.com) . Also, I suppose you
could use the CPYFRMIMPF command (although you should be sure of
removing the header lines beforehand).


Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries



On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM, James H. H. Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It appears that I may soon find myself having to import a whole file of
> fencepost-delimited ASCII data into DB2/400 files.
>
> The file formats are known, in fact we have files that *should* be in
> the target format.
>
> The ASCII stream files appear to start with a line of field names.
> Fields are delimited with ASCII fenceposts ('|', hex 7C), and records
> are delimited by CRLF (hex 0D0A).
>
> Two of the files are over a gigabyte; the third is over 300 megabytes.
>
> Any suggestions on the most painless way to deal with this mess?
>
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