how to read data in text file, extract and display in tabular manner in excel doc?

[maylee21]

hi, anyone can help me figure out how to read data from a text file
like this:

10980012907200228082002

and extract the data according to this kind of format:

Record type 1
TY-RECORD PIC (1).
ID-PARTICIPANT PIC (6).
DT-START PIC (8).
DT-END PIC (8).


i would want the program to extract the data and display them like
this:

TY-RECORD ID-PARTICIPANT DT-START DT-END
1 098001 29072002 28082002

and to save them in an excel format. I have plenty of record types (0
- 9) and need to display them in separate tables.

does anyone has a source code for this? or at least somebody pls guide
me to figure out ways to create the program.

many thanks!

 

[Ian Collins]

hi, anyone can help me figure out how to read data from a text file
like this:

10980012907200228082002

and extract the data according to this kind of format:

Record type 1
TY-RECORD PIC (1).
ID-PARTICIPANT PIC (6).
DT-START PIC (8).
DT-END PIC (8).


i would want the program to extract the data and display them like
this:

TY-RECORD ID-PARTICIPANT DT-START DT-END
1 098001 29072002 28082002

and to save them in an excel format. I have plenty of record types (0
- 9) and need to display them in separate tables.

The reading part is easy, but you'll have to ask in a windows group for
this bit.

 

[Jim Langston]

hi, anyone can help me figure out how to read data from a text file
like this:

10980012907200228082002

and extract the data according to this kind of format:

Record type 1
TY-RECORD PIC (1).
ID-PARTICIPANT PIC (6).
DT-START PIC (8).
DT-END PIC (8).


i would want the program to extract the data and display them like
this:

TY-RECORD ID-PARTICIPANT DT-START DT-END
1 098001 29072002 28082002

and to save them in an excel format. I have plenty of record types (0
- 9) and need to display them in separate tables.

does anyone has a source code for this? or at least somebody pls guide
me to figure out ways to create the program.

many thanks!

Well, one thing you might want to consider doing is to save the data into a
CSV (comma seperated variable) file and open that in excel. Then you won't
have to worry about saving in excel format which can be a pain. But excel
can open a CSV file. In which case you would want to save the data so it
looks like this:

1,098001,29072002,28082002

You may also wish to put your header file first.
TY-RECORD,ID-PARTICIPANT,DT-START,DT-END

1,098001,29072002,28082002

 

[James Kanze]

hi, anyone can help me figure out how to read data from a text file
like this:

and extract the data according to this kind of format:

Record type 1
TY-RECORD PIC (1).
ID-PARTICIPANT PIC (6).
DT-START PIC (8).
DT-END PIC (8).

i would want the program to extract the data and display them like
this:

TY-RECORD ID-PARTICIPANT DT-START DT-END
1 098001 29072002 28082002

and to save them in an excel format.

Does the data have to be converted into numeric types, or is it
sufficient to keep it as strings. If all you need is strings,
just read the record into a string, then use string::substr() to
extract the different fields. If you need to convert, you'll
have to start like this as well, then use istringstream to
convert the field to the target type. Because there are no
separators, you cannot use istream to convert before having
broken the data up into fields.

To display, you can just output using <<, but for tabular
output, something like boost::format might be easier to use,
once you learn the arcane format syntax. (The ideal would be
something like Basic's PRINT USING, but I don't know of anything
similar in C++.)

For Excel, the simplest would doubtlessly be a CSV format; just
output each line as sequence of comma separated values (or
semi-colon separated, if you are outside of the Anglo Saxon
world).

I have plenty of record types (0
- 9) and need to display them in separate tables.

In which case, it wouldn't be too hard to write a small program
which parses the Cobol record declarations into a simple C++
class, including a constructor which does the conversions.

Note that any "USAGE IS COMPUTATIONAL" will be BCD, and if the
Cobol is running on an IBM mainframe, the text may be EBCDIC.

You may also want to recognize some naming conventions. (In the
above, it looks like DT- might be dates, for example.)