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Thanks Carel.  I should have been more specific.

There are a set of source documents that represent 300 accounts.  The
students will each key all 300 of them into the test library.  The
instructor has entered the data in these files already, and I made copies of
them in another library ("model" files).

The students will enter the data, and my programs will check what they
entered against what is in the model files, that the instructor previously
populated.

So there are seven files that contain data (acct master, claim master, trans
detail, etc.).  They are comprised of around three hundred fields of data,
each of which must be tested against the known-good "master" files that the
instructor populated previously.

I haven't sent any specific record layouts, etc. because at this point, I am
in the planning phase.  I am trying to envision it, and all I can see is
writing a monolothic program that simply checks each field, sequentially,
and writes an output record containing the field name and the
correct/incorrect answers to an output file.  This would result in 317
chunks of code, one after the other, and a nightmare to update later (even
for me ;-) )

But I think that creating 317 modules, one for each field, isn't really any
better.  Thanks in advance for any help in structuring this beast.

On 1/10/06, Carel Teijgeler <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tony,
>
> Unfortunately, you do not tell what the files to be checked have for
> format.


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