I've written s/sheet-reading programs (thank you, Scott). But I didn't
want to get involved with having to interrogate cell-type to see if it's
numeric or alpha, which I haven't yet had to do. And there's the issue
of Excel versions that are/will be un-supported by Apache POI.
I guess I just thought a [comma, tab, pipe] delimited file parser (my
upfront screen asks what the delimiter is, and whether some/all fields
are surrounded by double quotes) would be more generally useful to me.
Arthur J. Marino
RockTenn Corporation
(631) 297-2276
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:31 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Using an Expression to control a FOR loop
Arthur,
First it determines 'max' field attributes for every column in the .csv
file and then displays a subfile showing the 'DDS'.
Why convert to *.csv file format first if they are giving you a
spreadsheet? Scott has published articles on using HSSF to read the
spreadsheet directly from your RPG program using a service program.
Here is
one link:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article.cfm?id=55032
The 2nd pass reads the data for the sole purpose of building a string
that exactly mimics the DDS record layout. That's why ...
Out of curiousity, how then are you handling negative numbers?
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