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NJBornSoonerBre · 10-02-2004, 08:30 PM

I used to be a COBOL & 3rd Generation language programmer in an HP MPE mainframe environment. Now I am an analyst for a Siemens Patient Accounting system and don't do much programming anymore. However, sometimes we pull ASCII files of information from the Siemens system and send them to other organizations.

What I need is to learn to do with Visual Basic is what I used to do with COBOL - that is: read in records from ASCII files(or ACCESS databases), manipulate the fields with if/then/else logic and basic math functions and output records to an ASCII file (or ACCESS db).

I have started reading Visual Basic for Dummies, but it mostly talks about creating dialog boxes and executing commands based on Windows events. What I need is to create .exe files that can be run from DOS commands in .BAT files that will input and output ASCII files.

Does anyone know of any resource I can use to learn this? Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.

10-02-2004, 08:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
NJBornSoonerBre Upright	Need Visual Basic Tutorial I used to be a COBOL & 3rd Generation language programmer in an HP MPE mainframe environment. Now I am an analyst for a Siemens Patient Accounting system and don't do much programming anymore. However, sometimes we pull ASCII files of information from the Siemens system and send them to other organizations. What I need is to learn to do with Visual Basic is what I used to do with COBOL - that is: read in records from ASCII files(or ACCESS databases), manipulate the fields with if/then/else logic and basic math functions and output records to an ASCII file (or ACCESS db). I have started reading Visual Basic for Dummies, but it mostly talks about creating dialog boxes and executing commands based on Windows events. What I need is to create .exe files that can be run from DOS commands in .BAT files that will input and output ASCII files. Does anyone know of any resource I can use to learn this? Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.