none wrote: > Hi, > Any one know of some code to read cobol data files.... > > thanks > timb
I posted some here maybe 5+ years ago that would convert COBOL comp-3, comp-4, and comp-5 fields (as from Realia) to whatever. I suppose you can still find it in google somewhere. There was some help for cracking one of the other COBOL file formats at a site called Wotsit's file formats or something like that. This helped me access data out of ISAM files from one of the non-Realia desktop COBOLs. It was one of the more popular COBOL versions way back in the 1980's, but I don't recall anymore which one it was, but I'd guess RM Cobol if I had to. COBOL has/had an indexed file type defined in the language, and the COBOL vendors each implemented it independently, I think. So there are variations in both the coding of various field/record types and the way that the files are put together. But Python can handle it if you can figure out the rules. Al -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
