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Ancient Dragon · Feb 24th, 2008, 5:48 PM

Nothing wrong with using fixed-length records, they actually have a lot of advantages over variable length records. Do the fixed-length records contain binary data and you want to convert them to readable text data? If that's the case then you can fairly easily write a conversion program that reads the fixed length records and rewrites them as variable length records into a different file. I've done it several times and it pretty simple stuff, providing you know the format of the fixed length binary records.

Feb 24th, 2008, 5:48 PM	#5
Ancient Dragon PFO God In Training Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: near St Louis, MO. (USA) Posts: 547 Rep Power: 4	Re: Help with variable-length fields Nothing wrong with using fixed-length records, they actually have a lot of advantages over variable length records. Do the fixed-length records contain binary data and you want to convert them to readable text data? If that's the case then you can fairly easily write a conversion program that reads the fixed length records and rewrites them as variable length records into a different file. I've done it several times and it pretty simple stuff, providing you know the format of the fixed length binary records. __________________ True Terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.