Re: Creating tab delimited files

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:34:07 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why bother? Just make it fixed-field format and save yourself the
headaches.
Surely, you cannot have a space or speed problem.

tony dilworth

On Planet Dilworth the villagers know that their COBOL lord has provided the
one true path for them.

The rest of your fun post clipped.

I see a real life compromise - the CoBOL passing fixed field format
XML data to a compressor routine. This would be easy in an OO
environment, but sufficiently complex in my environment that I created
a CoBOL paragraph(s) that I clone as needed.
.

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