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- From: fisk@cvdv73.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk)
- Subject: Tool to transform/reorganize ASCII files
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- Organization: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:31:36 GMT
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- We are looking for a tool that would allow us to take an ASCII input file,
- and reorganize/transform it to another format.
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- The task at hand is taking ASCII data dumps from several different
- medical centers that have similar but different formats and "normalizing" them
- to one common data format that I can import into a database. I would
- essentially have to take apart the ASCII input records, reorganzie the data,
- possibly do some transformations on the data (i.e., changing all the diagnosis
- codes to a standard list), and write the data out to my common format. I
- will then take this common format and import it into my database.
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- The "perfect" tool would allow me to have a configuration file to drive the
- entire process.
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- Does anybody know if such a beast exsits? Does this sound like something
- that GAWK would be capable of handling?
-
- Thanks for your help and suggestions! Tom.
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