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Retriving a repeating group as a collection or an array.

ltrajkum...@gmail.com (Raj) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:03:54 UT

I have fixed length string similiar to
"ADDRESS......CCYYMMDDCCYYMMDD CCYYMMDD...." where a group of
characters will be repeating a fixed number of times. In the above
example the date "CCYYMMDD" is repeating 3 times. How do I get the
date values as a collection or an array using Fixedformat4j?

inner classes?

gannc...@gmail.com (ganncamp) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:25:17 UT

I'm dealing with mainframe records like this:

ATable
[column] [size]
val1 5
val1uom 6
val2 4
val2uom 4
val3 4
val3uom 6
...

Where "uom" = units of measurement

I had hoped to be able to tidy these pairs into "Measurement" class
instances within my larger, ATable class.

@Records within @Records

dpoli...@gmail.com (hoffmandirt) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:15:26 UT

I was trying to use a @Record within a @Record and I wasn't having any
luck. Is this possible in 1.2.1? Note the KeyOfficialRecord has a
FileHeader in it below. I know inheritance would work, but I have an
instance where composition would work a lot better.

@Record
public class FileHeader {
private String versionTag;

Handling Empty Dates

dpoli...@gmail.com (hoffmandirt) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:10:50 UT

What is the best way to handle empty date fields? For example I have a
file that has a date/time, the format is yyyy/MM/ddHH:mm, that
represents a cancelation. Most of the time this date/time is not
there. Even worse, when it's not there, it comes through as:

data_prior_to_cancelation_date _time / / :

Release 1.2.2

jacobvoney...@gmail.com (Jacob von Eyben) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:11:58 UT

Fixedformat4j has just been released in a 1.2.2 version.
See the change list here: [link]
It will soon be available from ibiblio, but untill then see here how
you can get it: [link]
Regards