On Nov 15, 2007 10:52 AM, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The silence here probably means the audience is not familiar with "COBOL > program where the field is 9(7).9(7)". Anyhow, I don't underdstand.
It certainly explains my lack of response ;-) I suppose the poster should look at the "picture" in "specs" for it, but without knowing what that format does, I may be sending him there without a reason. > I can say however that in your specs you have two things that are not > required, hence pure overhead: "PAD BLANK" is default and when padding is > with blanks, there is no need to code things like "/ / 105" (unless the > data you placed previously could have placed something else in column 105 & > 106). I would certainly consider a topology of the pipeline that requires less typing (and re-typing when something changes). For starters, split the records on the | and match them against a table to arrange justifying and/or padding. If nothing else, one could even generate the pipeline out of such a table. Rob
