Greenbar

I said [3/4/2018] I wasn’t going to do much more to my greenbar program but I did add holes to the side of the listing. Here once again is a Before and After GnuCOBOLlisting. Here’s one in blue, I personally never saw this color at school or in our shop…however I know it exists.  Not …

Python XML

Been learning Python’s XML handling. Very useful. I like how easy it is to get to nested tags that may or may not exist. I have been rewriting my Diaro (android diary app) file export [to XML format] processing program, to use this method. Why not use this tested [probably by thousands and maybe millions …

Add random amount field

Add an random amount field [0.01-100.99] to my Julia program that generates real “looking” customer data. I did this so I could practice numeric calculations in GnuCOBOL. Wrote GnuCOBOL program that uses the COBOL SORT output to printer, with a heading and final total for a amount field in the input.

GnuCOBOL

Another more advanced  GnuCOBOL program that uses the COBOL SORT. Pretty nice COBOL! Sort was so fast on my first test of 5000 records, that I reran on 50,000 records. Still literally ran in the blink of an eye. So I timed it. bill@billb-MS-7B79 ~/Mystuff/COBOL/progs $ time ./sort01 [GnuCOBOL program] real    0m0.107s user    0m0.064s sys   …

GnuCOBOL

Decided to kick the tires of GnuCOBOL, pushing it a little harder. Wrote a little more advanced GnuCOBOL simple array program that Uses: REDEFINES, OCCURS, VARYING. I have previously wrote a few programs to read/write variable and fixed length records. Variable length records are pretty much regular ascii files (perhaps delimited with a comma) with …