Hi,

I need help on a technique which I'm facing first time.

I have file with records like;

ORDNUM ORDITEM
===== ======

45466 ERT6
67688 AERT, RTRTR, RTSDF
98989 DESH, KLHRET
65656 LKNBV


For a single ORDNUM, there might be more than one ORDITEM values seperated by comma (,). I want to break the ORDITEM for a ORDNUM and make a another record with the ORDNUM. The expected output will be;

ORDNUM ORDITEM
===== ========

45466 ERT6
67688 AERT
67688 RTRTR
67688 RTSDF
98989 DESH
98989 KLHRET
65656 LKNBV


Anyone has any idea, how do get it?

Thanks in advance,
Thiru

I had a similar issue, but I created a view in database and created a master file for that view.

thanks,
kj

Thanks for your thought! But I need to do without using the view or any SQL Passthru.

Any more idea?

Thanks,
Thiru

Assuming the items are in one text file, you could use the gettok and ljust functions to strip each one into a defined field. This will get the items into fields. Then look at the MacGuyer Technique of making one record into many.

A similation I use is to take an existing file and do something like this: (QUASI CODING HERE)
DEFINE FILE AFILE
BLANK/A1 = ' ';
END
TABLE FILE AFILE
PRINT
COMPUTE COUNTER/I2 = COUNT + COUNTER;
BY BLANK
ON TABLE HOLD AS FSEQ FORMAT FOCUS INDEX BLANK
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 12 (OR WHATEVER YOU NEED)
DEFINE FILE BFILE
PUT GETTOK STUFF HERE
BLANK/A1 = ' ';
END
TABLE FILE BFILE
PRINT ORDNUM ORDITM1 ORDITM2 .....
BY BLANK
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD1
END
JOIN BLANK IN HOLD1 TO ALL BLANK IN FSEQ AS J1
DEFINE FILE HOLD1
ORDITM/A(however long) =
IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN ORDITM1
ELSE IF COUNTER EQ 2 THEN ORDITM2
ELSE ...... ELSE ' ';
END
TABLE FILE HOLD1
PRINT ORDNUM ORDITM
WHERE ORDITM NE ' '
END

I forgot one define in the AFILE for count
in my last post on this.

COUNT/I1 = 1;

Leah,

Thanks for your solution! I'll try to implement this idea for my case.

Thiru

Leah,

Thank you so much for your quick solution. It really worked out well eventhough it has the static record limit. But I never mind on this now.

Thanks again,
Thiru