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<node id="24125" title="What is the best way to parse a 488 byte record?" created="2000-07-24 17:06:39" updated="2005-08-15 08:29:33">
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categorized question</type>
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QandAEditors</author>
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I have a very ugly COBOL record descriptor, and need to parse the record 
into a semicolon delimted format. For this particular record
type, the first two bytes comprise the first field, the next four, etc.
etc. I suspect an array would make life easy, as I can assemble the
final 'product' with a join command. Any ideas?</field>
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1826</field>
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