On 25/03/2009, at 7:23 PM, Mark Gowdy wrote:
You could investigate 'Regular Expressions'. They are very powerful.
Although you rarely hear RegEx and 'Easing the pain' in the same
sentence.
Being a reformed perl programmer I am intimately familiar with regular
expressions. Unfortunately for me, the difficulty lies is that the
data I am working with is not a single uniform record type, but a
dozen different record types that relate to each other, each with
different field lengths, and each of those fields needs to be
converted from a string to a date, integer, decimal, etc.
Anyway, I think I have something that will mostly do what I need using
an XML data model. I am still open to suggestions though.
Mark
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On 25 Mar 2009, at 04:01, Q <[email protected]> wrote:
This is a bit off topic, but the Java foo is strong here so I
thought it a good place to ask.
I am in the unfortunately position of having to write a parser for
a flat fixed width ascii file format that uses a cobol style multi-
record format where one of the leading fields defines the actual
record type, which determines how you need to parse the rest of the
string.
Can anyone recommend a java library to help do this sort of data
processing that might ease my pain.
Thanks.
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Seeya...Q
Quinton Dolan - [email protected]
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)
Ph: +61 419 729 806
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