Tracy,
Take a look at this link:
http://www.robelle.com/support/qedit/undelimit.html
Thanks,
Jeff Kubler
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From: Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: unpacking comma-delimited data?


> I need to unpack some typical comma-delimited data.  I've written this in
> Cobol before, but can't find it grrr.  Does anyone have a code snippet I
can
> copy?  Lazy, yes, but worth a shot!
> (data's similar to : "tracy",4159232266,"is lazy",-1.2345,"etc".  Also due
> to laziness, Cobol's the only compiler I have on my 3000s.)
>
> Or there may be some long-overlooked Suprtool feature for this -
output,link
> works great, STExport is great too, but I haven't noticed STImport or
> similar.  ?
>
> btw while I'm on this topic, does anyone know how to force Excel to treat
> "12345" as a string?  It annoyingly right-justifies these despite the
> quotes; mixed with "A12345" entries, it looks sloppy and is misleading.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> K Tracy Pierce
> Systems Programmer
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