Character validation on mainframe

[DiamondDave2005]

Hi,
I know nothing about C, but we can run C programs on the mainframe here.
I'm trying to find a way to validate characters on an input file. We do this with Cobol, but need a different program for each file length.
With C, I think we could use one program that could handle any length input file, validate each character in a record, and write it out in the same format/length it was received.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks,
Dave

 

[ami123]

This should be an easy task. The code would look something like this...

main() {
char *buffer[LINE_MAX];
FILE *fp_r,*fp_w;
fp_r=fopen("filename","r"
fp_w=fopen("destination","w"

while ( fgets(fp_r,LINE_MAX,buffer) != NULL) {
if( validate_output(buffer) != 0) {
fputs(buffer,fp_w);
}
}
fclose(fp_r);
fclose(fp_w);
}

You will have to write the validate_output() function to validate the characters.
amit
crazy_indian@lycos.com

to bug is human to debug devine

 

[DiamondDave2005]

Thanks...that's a good starting point.
Dave