Re: Determine IFS file type

Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:

>Lawson creates a .prt text file on the IFS for every report it creates. We
>want to be able to read that file for some custom java programs. I have
>looked at these before and have noticed that they are EBCDIC files. However,
>one program (RW100) seems to be different. On one job (Preliminary) it
>creates the files as EBCDIC, the other job (Final) creates plain text (NOTE:
>these are the same job except by name). How can we determine what type the
>file is so we can properly read it into our java program or fix it so that
>they are all of one type (EBCDIC or ASCII).
>
Could this approach work?

Do any parts of the report always contain the same text (eg. a program
name, a report title). Its need to be something you can recognize.

When you read the data from your file, test for this string. If the
value you read is not the string you expect then the file must be in the
wrong character set. You could use this method to determine your file type.

It is a crude method, yet it should work.

Syd Nicholson

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