I have been given the task of writing the input program for the 3041/4010 837 Transaction set. I am not expecting there to be many 4gl people out there writing this stuff but it's worth a shot.
As you know, if you are invloved with this, these EDI files come to you as single line, many times as long as 50,000 characters. This single line is broken up into my loops based on segment identifiers. I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to break this up and look at it. Primarily how to get this single line under 35,000 characters to it will at the very least fit into a ''line' variable...
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have already re-written the program for the output file of this transaction set, but I'm finding the input program much more challenging.
T.I.A.
As you know, if you are invloved with this, these EDI files come to you as single line, many times as long as 50,000 characters. This single line is broken up into my loops based on segment identifiers. I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to break this up and look at it. Primarily how to get this single line under 35,000 characters to it will at the very least fit into a ''line' variable...
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have already re-written the program for the output file of this transaction set, but I'm finding the input program much more challenging.
T.I.A.