PH and text files

[Guy Werry]

Is this one of those things where it would be easier to re-format the data
using a utility program and THEN feeding the Quiz?

For instance, on Unix the utility program "awk" is ideally suited to reading
a variable-length comma delimited file and it could write out a fixed length
output file.  This would probably be much simpler than goofing around with
Quiz in order to read the variable length file.

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about OpenVMS, so this sort of utility
may not exist.

Good Luck,
Guy L. Werry
Senior Systems Analyst
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Edis [mailto:robeconsult@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:49 AM
To: PowerHouse List
Subject: Re: PH and text files


G'day Aci

Reading a variable length file with Quiz is not
normally any problam at all on OpenVMS.  However Quiz
does not know how to parse the fields using delimiters
unless you define the record in a dictionary.

If you don't want to modify your existing PHD or
create a new, perhaps temporary one, by creating a
specific file/record entry with field details you can
create/use a simple file/record entry in the PHD that
shows the records as having only one field.  You then
need to write field parsing logic in the Quiz code
itself.

Blue 


--- Aci Polajnar <Aci.Polajnar@rcc-irc.si> wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> Anybody, is there a way to read variable length text
> file, comma delimited usinq QUIZ. My platform is
> ALPHA/VMS and PH-710G
> 
> Thanks and best regards!
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