That's cobol. I found some info about the data types here:

http://www.felgall.com/cob1.htm

Have a look. Unfortunatelly I can't be more helpful but hopefully this will

put you on the right track.

> -----Original Message-----

> From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-

> bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan

> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:47 AM

> To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> Subject: Re: Weird format

>

> The file is an odd format which I haven't seen before. The patient

balance is

> supposed to be in column 810 for a length of 9 (7 and 2 after decimal)

>

> In that field are weird characters like '}' 'J' and other characters. Is

this some

> packed format? I don't get it.

>

> All the other data so far has been either Z for numeric (which I think is

left

> zero filled) and C for character.

>

>

>

>

> --- On Wed, 3/2/11, Alan Bourke <alanpbourke@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>

> > From: Alan Bourke <alanpbourke@fastmail.fm>

> > Subject: Re: Weird format

> > To: profox@leafe.com

> > Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 4:06 AM Could they be xBase-style

> > picture codes as opposed to a data type? Z being 'blank if zero' .

> >

> > --

> >   Alan Bourke

> >   alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

> >

> >

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