Re: [open-cobol-list] opening variable named files programatically

[Wim Niemans]

See http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/OpenCOBOL%20Programmers%20Guide.pdf

In openCobol you can write

SELECT myFILE ASSIGN TO DISK myFileName.

Where myFileName is a working-storage item containing the full path and 
filename.

Hope this helps.


Op 23 jun. 2013, om 20:11 heeft Patrick het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Everyone
> 
> I haven't posted for a month of more but I am plugging away with open 
> Cobol every minute I can and loving it.
> 
> I have hit a roadblock, actually two, though
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> I am creating a program to help my son with his apraxia. He has a 
> terrible time sequencing sounds. I believe that the English language is 
> complicating his issues. There is a very poor mapping of sounds to the 
> written the language and he is very visual.
> 
> I have spent quite some time making a respelling system for him. It is 
> based on IPA. The international phonetic alphabet writes how words 
> should be spoken.
> 
> For instance fox in IPA is fɒks.
> 
> There are too many characters in IPA to teach my son and there are too 
> many similar characters which could confuse regular spelling. I have 
> been trying to create a respelling system that is based on 44 sightwords 
> I will teach him. I want him to be able to say parts of words.
> 
> So for instance, the A in face is different then the A in cat. Rather 
> then using complex characters I want to print cat and face with the "A" 
> highlighted and the rest of the word in lowlight, the whole word itself 
> will become the special linguistic "character".
> 
> I have created 25000 files that look like this file named fox
> 
> fɒks
> Fish
> hOt
> Kick
> Sink
> 
> 
> I want to read through the file line by line and call procedures to 
> print sightwords stacked in such a way that they look like a vertical 
> cross word puzzle word. His respelling system will be written 
> vertically. The F in fish will be directly over the O in hot, the K in 
> kick and the S in sink. f O K S will all be in the same color and the 
> rest of the letters will be dim. The first line will not be printed, 
> it's the IPA transcription and is there so I can error check.
> 
> I don't think it will be so hard to do this once I figure out how to 
> open the files but right now I am stuck.
> 
> My first problem is being able to open files not hardcoded in the FD 
> section. I haven't come across any examples of this. When he(or I) type 
> in "lime" in an entry field, I want libcob to search through 25K files 
> to open the correct one on the fly. and without any hardcoding. I don't 
> know how to do this.
> 
> I don't want to have to have my cobol executable mixed in with 25K other 
> files too. I can't seem to figure out how to open a file by it's full 
> Linux path name.
> 
> I found this thread:
> http://www.opencobol.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1358&forum=1&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=10
> 
> and found Brian's suggestion and did this:
> 
> export LD_RUN_PATH=/cob/lookup
> 
> (I made a cob directory after root to keep the path name short)
> 
> if I echo $LD_RUN_PATH I get the correct results.
> 
> I have hardcoded a file named "food" for now into the program but it is 
> not yet being found, I get error 35.
> 
> Could anyone point me to some more resources so I can read about how to 
> do these two things?
> 
> Thanks for reading-Patrick
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