> In general, X12 files don't lend themselves to "simple" conversion to
> flat files.  They are quite hierarchical.  They're not really
> difficult to parse though.  Get the implementation guides from
> Washington Publishing (www.wpc-edi.com) if you need to interpret what
> you're seeing.

Catherine,

If you're sticking with the 3000, I would look at ProEDI.  If not consider
Glenn's resource.  If it's a one off project, awk (available on MPE, *nix
and windows) is made to read records (segments) and fields (elements).  You
just set the record and field separators and the values are available in an
array.

Mark W.

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