RE: FTP Format

That's what I thought, David. They seem to love CSV (they use it a lot for
other things). I have parsed CSV and other delimited files before, but I'm
getting lazy in my old age (that's not true; I've always been lazy) and
having a relational bucket (i.e., table) for them to drop things in just
seemed a whole lot easier since I would have to add a front-end (parser) to
the mix.

Jerry C. Adams
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 9:04 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: FTP Format

On 11/15/2011 8:58 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

My question to the group is: Isn't FTP just a character-by-character
transmission? That is, the item number may be 1-5 numbers (1-99999).
If only '1' is transmitted, would not that mean that everything gets
PUT into the wrong locations of an SQL DDL file on our system in that
case?

The file that is transferred to the host would have to have some kind of
format ... it could be fixed format, csv, etc.

You just need to determine what the actual format is in order to parse it.
If it's fixed format, you won't have a lot to do.

david