Processing control/validation files
Some organizations prefer to use a companion (control/validation) file containing file information instead of storing the information in the file header or trailer. This means that the detail file is much simpler to process, because it is a normal flat file.
In this recipe, the control file has the same name as the detail file; however, it is suffixed with .ctrl rather than .txt. This recipe shows how the control file is processed.
Getting ready
Open the jo_cook_ch08_0130_controlFile job. You will see that tFileList_1 is looking for files with the mask of chapter08_jo_0130_customerData*.txt. There are two of these in the directory.
How to do it...
The steps for processing control/validation files
- Copy the first sub ...
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