Re: Creating tab delimited files

On 21 Feb, 22:36, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Howard Brazee" <how...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:34:07 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashw...@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.

Yes, as usual, Howard, you make good sense.

It is pretty trivial to create XML from a COBOL program (assuming you can't
simply plug in an existing XML component as you probably would in an OO
environment). There has been some discussion on this in the "Bridging the
Gap" topic, where both Richard and I have advocated using a a templated
approach for XML generation.

Of course, XML for the Dilworthians would be like teaching shorthand to an
orang-utan...


The Librarian has no need for shorthand (see the Discworld series)
other than the occasional modular bunch of fives.


.

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