RE: Reading spool file with Java

From: Urbanek, Marty

Thanks, Joe.

There is some sort of header of approximately a couple hundred chars
that is mostly unreadable except for the occasional printable character
that shows up, such as a K or a <.

Following the "header", the "report" part looks pretty good, but there
seems to be some sort of marker before each text field. Most of them are
left braces "{" but sometimes it is a left brace + another character
such as {/ or {". Almost like the left braces could be a tab.

I cannot tell what the data is in hex because I don't know enough Java
to make it print the data in hex.

Okay, I checked my code and now I remember why I did what I did: because I
couldn't figure out the spooled file classes <grin>. Instead, I copy the
spooled file to a physical file using *SPLCTL and then process the resulting
physical file. *SPLCTL puts space and skip information in the first four
characters of each record.

Joe