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From: Nick Williams <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Icon V9, under OpenVMS/VAX and Indexed RMS files
To: [e-mail] (Brian Tiffin)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 10:32:36 -0500 (EST)
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>Hi,

>   I've got some code that attempts to take free format user entered string data and look up postal codes.  I think
>I have a useable algorithm to pull out Number Streetname Streettype Direction (the city is 'guessed at' using a
>telephone number) while skipping over/under the 'garbage'.

>   Now I'd like a way of indexing into our keyed Canada Post data to pull out the actual postal code.  Anyone out there
>ever done any FAB/RAB low level operations from Icon V9?  Reading through the file as flat ASCII just doesn't cut it
>and its way too huge to pull into a TABLE.  I'm thinking that I should probably look into the C interface, but I was just
>wondering if this has been done before.

I'm looking at changing the way Icon tables are implemented to allow
different kinds of table access/set methods to be used. It should not be
too hard, and there's not much that needs to be changed to allow this;
it would involve adding function pointers to the b_table struct for the
methods as well as some identification flags/variables, as well as code
to check the type of table in all Icon functions/operators that access
tables.

>Thanks,

>Brian Tiffin
>Centracs Development
>[e-mail]

Nick

IOS System Operator ([e-mail])