parsing key file

[Jose Lerebours]

lol - Did we just gave birth to a potential web based report writer for 
filePro?

I mean, once data is loaded to array, one can do whatever you want, 
including, but
not limited to, search, sort, edit ...  Oh, wait, edit is not "bueno" 
since replacing
blocks of data in "key" will not necessarily rebuild automatic indexes.

Well, at least for reporting purposes (provided it is just a straight 
dump not involving
math or header/detail scenario).


On 5/25/21 2:34 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
> It's been decades since I had to do this.  I don't remember the
> details of the 40 character header other than the first character
> indicates whether the record is active or has been deleted.
>
> Beyond that, the key (and data) records have no delimiter
> separating the records, but are fixed length.  The key records
> are 40 + length of all fields so require reads of explicit
> length.  In python this might be:
>
> fh = open('pathtokeyfile', 'rb')
> n = 20 + reclength
> for rec in fh.read(n):
> 	hdr = rec[0:20]
> 	data = rec[20:]
> 	...
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me what is the BOR or EOR markers?
>>
>> I could save time if I know exactly what the first 40 or characters are or if
>> there is a delimiter/marker I can reference to split the segments.
>>
>> I put together sa simple script but it turns out that there is more to it
>> than I thought - Got to do some coding on some other stuff but I will
>> come back to this in a few ...  hope you guys have an answer for me by then!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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