C# Programming
06-12-2011, 04:20 AM
Hi Guys. I want to dev an app which will read ASCII files but using their COBOL copy-books as format reference and then mapping them into a new COBOL copy-book. Is there a plugin that would let me specify a cobol copy book and then reference the input file against it and read it?
I coul probably write the layouts as classes and do it that way bbut this will take ages as I have many copy-books to do.
My aim is to read in a file, refer to the copy book for the format and then convert it to a different copy-book by "cross mapping".
Anybody done anything like this before? I'm just looking for suggestions or references to articles or some web links. All I can find is some IBM stuff, WEBSPHERE etc but not what I am looking for though.
Thanks
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I coul probably write the layouts as classes and do it that way bbut this will take ages as I have many copy-books to do.
My aim is to read in a file, refer to the copy book for the format and then convert it to a different copy-book by "cross mapping".
Anybody done anything like this before? I'm just looking for suggestions or references to articles or some web links. All I can find is some IBM stuff, WEBSPHERE etc but not what I am looking for though.
Thanks
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.