Re: [R] parsing the file

Based on the discussion of ORing values with characters in [1] which may generate "unusual" characters I suspect a botched conversion from EBCDIC may have messed with some of the data. If there are signed data fields then OP may need to read the original file and treat it as if it were binary da

Re: [R] parsing the file

Here is an attempt at parsing the data. It is fixed field so the regular expression will extract the data. Some does not seem to make sense since it has curly brackets in the data. Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not h