Re: Importing fencepost-delimited ASCII data

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't appear to be too bad if the data is constraint. Use IFS Api's to
open and read record by record then just a tokenizer to break into
individual strings. I have a tokenizer I wrote if you are interested
although a lot of people have them.

If my experience the trickee part is dealing with missing or bad data.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:49 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It appears that I may soon find myself having to import a whole file of
> fencepost-delimited ASCII data into DB2/400 files.
>
> The file formats are known, in fact we have files that *should* be in
> the target format.
>
> The ASCII stream files appear to start with a line of field names.
> Fields are delimited with ASCII fenceposts ('|', hex 7C), and records
> are delimited by CRLF (hex 0D0A).
>
> Two of the files are over a gigabyte; the third is over 300 megabytes.
>
> Any suggestions on the most painless way to deal with this mess?
>
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