RE: cpyfrmimpf null dilemma ?

sed "s/^,/0,/"

or

sed "s/^,/' ',/"

would cover the nulls in the first position.

There's also a way to combine the two so that you don't have to parse the
file twice.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Truax [mailto:truax@telerama.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:53 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: cpyfrmimpf null dilemma ?


Jim,
This may work, but there are many records that begin with 1 comma.
So the replacement of the dual-commas would miss the single comma occurring
at the beginning of many of these records.
Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Damato" <jdamato@dollargeneral.com>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:47 PM
Subject: RE: cpyfrmimpf null dilemma ?


> On Unix could you run a vi or awk command to fill in the nulls by scanning
> for groups of two commas.  According to our Unix Sys Admin the command:
>
> sed "s/,,/,0,/g" < inputfile > outputfile
>
> would create a new file with the nulls replaced with zeros.  If you needed
> blanks you could use the same sed command above substituting 0 with ' '
>
> -Jim
>
> James P. Damato
> Manager - Technical Administration
> Dollar General Corporation
> <mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Rowe [mailto:martin@dbg400.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:16 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: cpyfrmimpf null dilemma ?
>
>
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:01 pm, Draper, Dale wrote:
> > I think DBG400(freeware) has a utility for this.
> > http://www.dbg400.net/
>
> Actually I've only got tools for going the other way - an alternative to
> CPYTOIMPF. I do have a csv parser routine that takes in a line and passes
> out an array with the individual fields, stripped of the quoting
> character (whatever it is) and an indication of which fields those were.
> It's on my to-do list to bundle this up into a proper tool, but it hasn't
> happened yet. Would the parser be of any use?
>
> Regards, Martin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Truax [mailto:truax@telerama.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:56 PM
> > To: ML - Midrange Email List
> > Subject: cpyfrmimpf null dilemma ?
> >
> >
> > Hey all,
> > Trying to copy a very attractive and massive file that I got from a
> > UNIX box to my AS400.
> > However this "very attractive" file has the dreaded "nulls" disease.
> > Them voids between the commas are killing this!
> >
> > Meaning
> > ,,data,,data,,0,1
> > ,data,,data,2,,3
> >
> > What shall I do to get this file to happily travel the "cpyfrmimpf"
> > route to my matching AS400 database file ??
> > Now the "cpyfrmimpf" is griping about the "nulls" ...any suggestions
> > from you smart individuals is greatly appreciated ???
> >
> > Tim  :-)
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