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samyamkrishna · Post by **samyamkrishna** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:38 am

Hi,

I have a source file which has teh following structure.

PIC S9(16)V9(02). and PIC S9(04)V9(02).

Its a fixed width file.
I do not have a sample file.

How should i read it.

PIC S9(16)V9(02). should i read as
inputcolumn[1,17] or inputcolumn[1,19]

and

S9(04)V9(02). should i read as
inputcolumn[1,5] or inputcolumn[1,7]

Regards,
Samyam

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:03 am

S9(16)V9(2) implies a sign, sixteen digits, a decimal place holder and two more digits, for a total of 20 characters. Therefore read this field as InLink.TheLine[1,20]

Using similar logic, the other field has eight characters, therefore read this field as InLink.TheLine[21,8]

Your line length is 28 characters plus line terminator (if any).

samyamkrishna · Post by **samyamkrishna** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:36 am

Thanks a lot Ray