cobol - perl ??

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Westman
Hi, I've got some files, that were written with a COBOL program, so I have fields that have been created with COMP (binary) picture clauses. The problem is now I need to read this file into a perl program. Here's what I have: 05 RECORD-TYPEPIC X. 05 LOC-ID

RE: cobol - perl ??

2003-03-28 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Jeff Westman wrote: Hi, I've got some files, that were written with a COBOL program, so I have fields that have been created with COMP (binary) picture clauses. The problem is now I need to read this file into a perl program. Here's what I have: 05 RECORD-TYPEPIC X.

RE: cobol - perl ??

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Westman
David, Thanks, I was just now finding out the same thing (architecture is 2 bytes for PIC S9(1) through PIC S9(5). Much thanks! -Jeff --- Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Westman wrote: Hi, I've got some files, that were written with a