Re: cpyfrmimpf null dilemma ?

Thanks Jim,
This is gonna be saved in my archive for future reference!
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Damato" <jdamato@dollargeneral.com>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: 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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