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

Wow, you want to roll your own EDI mapper? It would be easier, and cost your company a lot less over time just to purchase one. There are quite a few that should fit the bill. As you are probably well aware, there are a whole boat load of 'standard' message types. I say 'standard' because, unless you are large enough to set your own standards, each trading partner is going to send a different set of segments with different looping requirements for the same EDI message.

Once you start doing EDI with one trading partner, you will invariably be requested to do it with another, and it will be different.

In any case I wouldn't want to convert from CSV to another format just to load it into a data structure. You are going to have to do just as much work getting it from XML into the data structure as you would have to for CSV. And XML is a far more inefficient format than CSV. That is with CSV about 90% of the string is going to be data, and the rest is commas. With XML about 15-20% of the string will be data and the rest is XML markup.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: Mike Wills
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Date: 05/10/2011 11:00AM
Subject: Re: Translating CSV to Data Structure (or iterating through a data structure)

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?

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

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