Re: Translating CSV to Data Structure (or iterating through a data structure)

Hi Mike,

I have an example in powerEXT (PXSAM130) that will convert the CSV to XML
and then
reads the XML - all within the same RPGLE program

"orderNo","customer","orderdate","orderText",
123456,999888,"2011-05-10","Text with spec char'\<>""&\",

will become:

<row rrn="1">
<column1>orderNo</column1>
<column2>customer</column2>
<column3>orderdate</column3>
<column4>orderText</column4>
</row>
<row rrn="2">
<column1>123456</column1>
<column2>999888</column2>
<column3>2011-05-10</column3>
<column4>Text with spec char&#39;\&lt;&gt;&quot;&amp;\</column4>
</row>

after that it is quite simple to process it and the result may be

powerEXT Example - Write/Read CSV
Row No: 1
Order No: orderNo
Cust No: customer
Order Date: orderdate
Order Text: orderText

Row No: 2
Order No: 123456
Cust No: 999888
Order Date: 2011-05-10
Order Text: Text with spec char'\<>"&\

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's an EDI document.

...
TD5||||||||||||G2
N1|ST| |15|1691902
PO1|1|2|UN|||EN|9781599610528
IT8|O
PO1|2|2|UN|||EN|9781591976295
IT8|O
...

I have just started on the project. So I honestly don't have much code
written yet. I just started to define some data structures for holding
each line type. I had a thought that there has to be a way for me to
save a ton of eval statements.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me



On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Mark S. Waterbury
<mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, Mike:

Perhaps you could post an example of the layout or definition of your
data structure, and a sample of the CSV document ...?

(Code can be posted to code.midrange.com and then post the generated
link to it, in your reply to the list.)

You could use "dummy" field names in the data structure and "dummy data"
in the sample CSV file, in case there is any "proprietary" information
that you do not wish to reveal to "the general public".

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 5/10/2011 9:43 AM, Mike Wills wrote:

I have a document I need to parse where each row is a different
format. The document is pipe "|" delimited. Is is possible to write a
more generic subprocedure to take each row and a data structure and
fill in the data structure? What I am thinking is iterating through
each field in the data structure and filling it with the corresponding
field from the CSV line that I parse. Is this even possible?

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

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