Parsing screen files

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jose Lerebours" <fpgroups at gmail.com>

> I feel like experimenting with filePro and PHP and one challenge came
> to mind, writing a sequence of classes that would parse through a
> screen and produce an HTML form.
> 
> I have no problem with listing files and listing their respective
> screens, easy! How does one parses through a screen? What must I
> know? Can anyone offer some advise?

Fourgen's original late-80s bundle included programs that would strip and
recombine both screen and report layouts; if you can locate them, they
might still work.

I believe Jeff or someone else I've worked with reinvented that wheel at
some point in the last 20 years as well...

I might have had to do it myself with dd (of all things), but I'm not sure
I could lay my fingers on that code -- don't remember whom I did it for.

Cheers,
-- jra
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