Art

You may be old enough to have potentially seen these (by the way, they still are in use) but you have been spared having to read files stored by COBAL and the like. I, fortunately, have had little need to read them so I will not offer specific informats.

Take a look at Base Dictionary odf Language Elements section of the on line docs and look up Working With Packed Decimal and Zoned Decimal Data.

I'm just playing for a mintue this afternoon. What are you doing working with this stuff on a Sat.?

Nat

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Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE. NET> To Sent by: "SAS(r) SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Discussion" cc <SAS-L@LISTSERV.U GA.EDU> Subject What are correct informats for reading mainframe data? 03/15/2008 11:01 AM

Please respond to Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE. NET>

I have a text file that has two fields which appear as follows:

00000793+ S1341 00000034- S32 G82 S42 00000800+ S1341 00000215- S72 S33 S80 S1 00000235+ S022 S36781 00000432+ S022 S36781

The first is identified as having a picture of x(9), while the second has a picture of s9(9).

I'm either too young to know what those mean, or so old that I've forgotten.

Thanks in advance, Art

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