Reading/loading a 'text' file as a subfile, or into a flat file - is there an easy way ?

[Richard Witkopp]

On VMS I just write a quick (no pun intended) ad hoc program to create a subfile that matches the format of the file you're trying to read. Then I run an analyze on the subfile .sf to get an .fdl. Then I run CONVERT on the text file using the .fdl, rename it to be the same as the subfile, and you're done.

I imagine similar utilities are available on other platforms.

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-bounces+rwitkopp=phxa.com at lists.sowder.com [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+rwitkopp=phxa.com at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Michel Adam
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 12:34 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: Reading/loading a 'text' file as a subfile, or into a flat file - is there an easy way ?

This has probably been answered any number of times before, but:

With PH on Wintel, I'd like to process a '.txt' file with QTP, or
convert it / load it into a flat file with the least amount of fuss
possible.

Are there any tools/tricks that will let PH deal with a variable record
length (byte stream) file as if it was a fixed length flat file ?

Thanks 

Michel Adam


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