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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 :-) -- martin@dbg400.net AIM/Gaim: DBG400dotNet http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open \ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
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