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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Generate a DML dynamically based off of header record Post 302820979 by anduzzi on Thursday 13th of June 2013 06:36:08 PM
Old 06-13-2013
Great start....
Yoda - Actually let me be more clear on this...since its tricky(atleast for me)!

Required Target DML:
Code:
record
string(',') A1;
string(',') A2;
date("YYYY-MM-DD")(',') A3;
string(',') A4;
date("YYYY-MM-DD")(',') A5;
string(',') Question;
string('\n') Response;
end;

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Input Data:
Code:
ID,Key,keyCreateDate,EmailAddress,DepDate,EndDate,Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4,Q5,Q6,Q7,Q8,Q9,Q10,Q11,Q12,Q12_1,Q12_2,Q12_3,Q12_4,Q12_5,Q12_6,Q12_7
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,10,10,10,10,10,2,,10,10,10,11,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,1

Output Data:
Code:
ID,Key,keyCreateDate,EmailAddress,DepDate,EndDate,Question,Response
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q1,10
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q2,10
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q3,10
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q4,10
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q5,10
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q6,10
---
---
---
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q12_5,10
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q12_6,10
R_5dOLRNb9wp2V4KF,A8XZNR,2013-05-07,123@YAHOO.COM,2013-05-26,2013-05-29 08:03:51,Q12_7,1

So....1 record would split out into 19 records since there are 19 questions!

And as the very nature the squence of questions is dynamic and the logic should be able to handle that and generate the output accordingly.

Thanks again!
~Anduzzi
 

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