Sign Trailing

[Brian Reynolds]

Hi Bruce,

I think I've come across an issue with the "sign trailing" clause, but wanted to run it by you first.

This is my copybook

       01 HEADER.
          05 SOME-VALUE  PIC S9(13)V99 SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE CHARACTER. 

and this is the contents of my dat file

000000000000123+

This is the code I'm using to execute

ICobol2Xml obj = Cobol2GroupXml.newCobol2Xml(copybookIs, "copybookname")
                .setFileOrganization(Constants.IO_DEFAULT)
                .setDialect(ICopybookDialects.FMT_INTEL)
                .setSplitCopybook(CopybookLoader.SPLIT_NONE);

        obj.cobol2xml(dataIs, os);

What I'm expecting to see is the value "1.23" but instead I'm getting:

<CobolData>
    <HEADER>
         <SOME-VALUE>12.3</SOME-VALUE>
     </HEADER>
</CobolData>

I've verified that if I take out the sign trailing... clause I get the expected value:

<CobolData>
    <HEADER>
         <SOME-VALUE>1.23</SOME-VALUE>
     </HEADER>
</CobolData>

Is this a bug or something I've done wrong?

Thanks,
Brian

[Bruce Martin]

Looks like it; I will investigate

[Bruce Martin]

If have fixed JRecord for this issue, The dowload:

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/jrecord/files/jrecord/Version_0.81/CobolToXml_Update.7z/download

has
New JRecord and cobol2xml jars
Update source for cobol2xml

I will update Subversion for the changes JRecord.

Note: The download is based on a forth comming release and the documentation refers to things that are yet to happen (e.g. changes to the Record|Editor).

[Brian Reynolds]

Works great - many thanks for the quick fix.