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Old 08-24-2004, 10:22 AM   #1
naijaguy
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problems reading in fixed-length record file


We just moved to the Linux version of a database, and we have a program written to load a fixed-length record file of info into the database that we have just copied over to the Linux version of the database. Most of the reading is fine, but we do have problems with larger files of info (e.g. greater than 24 MB) where it starts getting off by a few bytes. Could this be related to Linux, or only the Linux version of this database? Thanks...
 
Old 08-24-2004, 02:34 PM   #2
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Without getting really technical - it sounds like your input file was created somewhere else and got garbage in it - or somebody is doing something dumb when writing the data.

I would suspect the files first - try figuring out where in the file you first go off, then use od to examine the data a few records before the offset problem occurs -

Code:
od -x -j nnnnn  filename | pg
Or - see if the file is the problem to start with -
example lrl = 120 bytes
Code:
let result=0
let lrl=120
let filelen=`cat file | wc -c`
result=`expr $filelen % $lrl`
if [ result -ne 0 ] ; then
       echo "Houston, we have a problem"
fi

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