RE: Comma Delimited File

[Alan Campin <Alan.Campin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I indicated in an earlier post about converting a string to packed
decimal, I use a state transition diagram and engine to analyze these
things. 

I have had to write, at least 4, of these with some pretty strange rules and
the state transition engine has handled them with ease

Absolutely nothing beats a state transition engine for parsing strings of
data. 

In fact, I have a service program that parses strings. E-mail or call me if
you would like to discuss this further.

And, of course, you can also create them in RPG III. Just takes a bit more
code and is not as elegant but works fine.

E-mail or call me if you would like to discuss this further.

If you have access to the News/400 CD rom, look at the November 1988 issue,
page 61, "The Infinite Uses of Finite State Machines" by Mel Beckman. The
article tells you how to construct the diagrams and the state transition
tables and the pseudo code for engines.  

I consider the fact that very few, if anyone, in the AS/400 world uses them
to be a real shame.

We had a vendor that was analyzing FEDX strings by doing searches in RPG.
Was taking the entire CPU each time we did FEDX. I created a state
transition diagram and was able to parse the same string in a fraction of a
second.  

or you can write brute force code to analyze them but what a job!

Alan Campin
Case Logic, Inc.
(303) 652-1036
alan.campin@caselogic.com

-----Original Message-----
From: golda joseph [mailto:golda_j@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 12:29 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Comma Delimited File


Hi,
    How can I read a comma delimited file?

Thanks in Advance,
GAJ

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