Hello everyone,
I'm trying to parse some data, but I don't really understand how it's defined. Supposedly this is definitions of the type of data that will be sent to me in that "field". I've asked the suppliers of the data to help me understand the layout, etc, so that I can parse it accordingly.

Here's a snip
2|ENTRY_TYPE|%s=%u
2|SERVICE_OPTION|%s=0x%04x
2|NEGOTIATED_SO|%s=0x%04x
2|LAST_MM_SETUP_EVENT|%s=%d
2|CIC_SPAN|%s=%d
2|CIC_SLOT|%s=%d

I believe the first column is the number of characters for the field whatever the datatype. The second column is the name of the field. The third is the format of the field.

I believe the third column is in unicode and that %s stands for string.

Note: This data is from the cellular industry so if anyone has experience with any of the major carriers I'd appreciate any help you could offer.

Can anyone throw me a line?

If you'd like to see the entire data file please email me off list and I'll supply it.

Thanks, Kevin

In reply to Help with ?unicode? data by kevsurf

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