sexta-feira, 28 de novembro de 2008

Dealing with record files

Have you ever worked with COBOL? Do you remember the DATA DIVISION?

Well in fact it doesn’t matter, probably if you work with Legacy code you will need to read or generate fixed size file, those files that the record is specified by the length, and probably you know how boring is to look at them and discover if the data is right or not.

Actually I am working with that kind of file and after some search in the internet I have found a interesting project: RecordEdit. There you can import a Cobol descriptor of the file and the program will be able to understand the file and split it to you.

Take a look, it is quite good and it saves a lot of time.

Just a advice: it is good to remember something from Cobol if you want to import some copycook, things like start at column 8 and end up at column 72 are still alive.

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