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kutsu
<p>The first link returned searching for Cobol on search.cpan is [mod://Convert::IBM390] which includes an example for reading a Cobol datafile (not sure what a .cad is though). If you want to read the data printed by the datafile simply set the fd with a filler (see below) then set the filler as a comma or pipe (or other delimiter) and [super search] for reading from a comma delimited file.</p>
<c>
fd data-file
LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD
DATA RECORD IS data-rec.
01 data-rec.
05 data-foo pic 9(05).
05 data-filler1 pic X(01).
05 data-bar pic X(15).
05 data-filler2 pic X(01).
* etc....
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