JP2004062659A - Form processing device, form processing method, storage medium and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate an operation of setting field attributes in business form processing of flowing field data in a field in a business form. <P>SOLUTION: A business form processing method flows field data in a field defined in a form. A character string included in set field attribute information, which comprises picture characters showing a format of filed data to be flowed, is picture-analyzed (Step S302). For a flow into a field, a number of repetitions of flowing given field data repeatedly by a plurality of times is checked and expanded as picture characters (Step S303). According to the number of repetitions, the given field data are repeatedly flowed in the field (Step S305). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a program for flowing data described in a field data source (hereinafter referred to as "field data") into a predefined field (a memory area in a program for receiving data of the field data source) in a form. And a form processing program.
[0002]
[Prior art]
The form processing program is a program for flowing field data into fields defined in advance in a form, and the program causes field data according to the field attribute of each field to flow.
[0003]
The field attribute is information individually included in each field in the flow of the field data. For example, the input picture is a character string representing a format of the field data that can be received by the field.
[0004]
Specifically, the input picture is described by arranging picture characters (each character of the input picture is referred to as “picture character”) for the number of characters of the field data. YYYY / MM / DD "is set.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the conventional method, when the number of characters of the field data set as the field attribute is large, the number of characters of the input picture to be described is also large. Therefore, input on the input picture setting screen (setting of the field attribute) is troublesome. In some cases, the number of characters was incorrectly entered.
[0006]
If the number of characters in the field data is undefined, the form processing program that pours the field data stores the field data stored in the data source according to the number of characters in the input picture. In the case of a numeric type field, it is necessary to add a space before the field data and add a space to the field (that is, after processing the field data).
[0007]
The present invention has been made in view of the aforementioned problems, and has the following objects.
(1) It is an object of the present invention to simplify a field attribute setting operation in a form processing in which field data is poured into a field in a form.
(2) In the form processing in which field data is poured into a field in the form, the field data can be poured without processing the field data in accordance with the set field attribute, so that the field data can be poured. Is intended to be simplified.
(3) Still another object of the present invention is to provide a form processing method, a form processing apparatus, and a program for realizing a form processing method by a computer, which solves the above problems.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, a form processing method according to the present invention has the following configuration. That is,
A form processing method for reading a field data source storing data to be poured into a field defined in a form, and flowing data of the field data source into a field in the form,
A reading step of reading a character string that is a character string included in the field attribute information set for each of the fields and that is composed of characters representing a format of the data to be poured;
When pouring into the field, a recognition step of recognizing the number of repetitions for repeatedly pouring predetermined data from the read character string,
A flowing step of repeatedly flowing the predetermined data into the field based on the recognized number of repetitions.
[0009]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. When terms used in the following description are defined in advance, “form” refers to a file having a frame line, a fixed figure, a character, etc., and capable of flowing field data into a defined field. And The "field data source" refers to a data source file (or database) in which data to be flowed into a field defined in a form is stored for each data item. The “data item” refers to an element constituting a set of field data.
[0010]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a form processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 to 10 are flowcharts showing the flow of data processing in the form processing device of FIG.
[0011]
In FIG. 1, 1 is a central processing unit, 2 is a storage device such as a RAM, 3 is a display device such as a CRT, 4 is a keyboard, 5 is a mouse, and 6 is an external auxiliary storage device. The external auxiliary storage device 6 indicates that a program or the like is distributed from the medium to the form processing device. As a storage medium for storing programs and the like, a ROM, a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a CD-ROM, a hard disk, a memory card, a magneto-optical disk, and the like can be used. FIG. 11 shows a configuration of a form processing program in a storage medium.
[0012]
FIG. 12 shows a memory map in a state where the form processing program, the field list, and the field data are stored in the storage device 2 and the program becomes executable.
[0013]
The field list is data in which field information is stored in the order of the fields (FIG. 13). Each field has a field attribute. The field attribute includes a field ID, a field name, a field format, a data type, an input picture, and the like.
[0014]
The field ID is a unique number that identifies a field within a program. The field name is a unique character string for the user to identify the field.
[0015]
The field format takes a value such as fixed / variable / auto. Fields with a fixed field format (hereinafter, fixed fields) receive data common to each print page, fields with a variable field format (hereinafter, variable fields) receive data that changes every print page, and the field format is automatic. (Hereinafter referred to as an automatic field) receives data automatically generated by the program, for example, the date and time at the start of printing and the print page.
[0016]
The data type indicates the type of data to be received, and takes a value such as a character / numerical value / date / time / barcode.
[0017]
The input picture is a character string indicating the format of the field data received by the field, and the field interprets the field data to flow according to this format. The input picture is composed of four types of picture characters: type designating characters, skipping characters, fixed characters, and repeated characters.
[0018]
FIG. 14 shows examples of four types of picture characters. The type designating character specifies how to interpret the character of the corresponding field data. For example, "9" means interpreting as a numerical value, "X" means a character, and "G" means interpreting as an era kanji. Field data that cannot be interpreted by the type designating character is regarded as not following the input picture, and an error occurs. For example, if field data of “character” is poured into “9 (numerical value)” and field data of “year” is poured into “G (genji kanji)”, an error occurs.
[0019]
Characters that can be used, combinations, orders, etc., may be limited depending on the data type. For example, if the data type is a date type, the type specification characters that can be used are “Y” (year), “M” (month), “D” (day), “G (double-byte character)” (Chinese era), "G" (Japanese calendar year), there is a restriction that "Y" and "G" cannot be combined, and "G" and "g" must be combined. There is a restriction that it cannot be discontinuous in one input picture. It is assumed that such a restriction is made when setting an input picture.
[0020]
FIG. 15 is an example of a screen for setting the data type of the field and the input picture. On this screen, the user selects a data type from the list, inputs an input picture, and presses the OK button. The combination with the data type and the combination of type designation characters are checked. Appears and cannot be set.
[0021]
The skip character specifies that an arbitrary character of the corresponding field data is skipped, and is a character that is not used as a type specification character. For example, for the picture “YYYY! MM! DD”, “2001/12/13” and “2001% 12% 13” are both interpreted as meaning December 13, 2001.
[0022]
The fixed character specifies that a specific character of the corresponding field data is skipped, and is a character other than the type designating character, the skip character, and the repeated character. If the character of the corresponding field data is not a specific character, it is determined that the field data does not conform to the input picture, and an error occurs.
[0023]
For example, the field data of “December 13, 2001” can be poured into a field of the date type in which the input picture is set to “YYYY MM / DD / DD”. The field data of "day" is an error. The repetition character specifies that the picture character immediately before "(" is to be repeated n times in a repetition notation in the format of "(n)" (n: an integer of 0 or more).
[0024]
For example, “9 (10)” is equivalent to “99999999999”. The repetition notation is effective for any picture character such as a type designating character, a skipping character, and a fixed character, but cannot be described at the beginning of an input picture. When the number of repetitions is 0, it has a special meaning that the number of characters is indefinite, and is called indefinite repetition notation.
[0025]
For example, the field data that can be poured into the input picture “9 (4)” is limited to a 4-digit numerical value, but the field data that can be poured into the input picture “9 (0)” is handled by the form processing program. Any number of digits is acceptable as long as it is within the range. Indefinite repetition notation can be used only once in an input picture of one field. This is because the number of characters of field data to be poured into each picture character cannot be specified if there is a plurality of indefinite repetition notations.
[0026]
For example, the input picture of “Y (0) year M (2) month D (2) day” is valid, but the input picture of “Y (0) year M (0) month D (2) day” is invalid. It is. On the input picture input screen, repetition notation is also checked, and if invalid, an error is displayed and settings cannot be made.
[0027]
The present embodiment is an example in which a plurality of field data are sequentially poured into corresponding fields, and a form processing program performs processing in a procedure as shown in FIG.
[0028]
First, it is determined whether there is first field data from the data source (step S201), and if so, the field data is obtained (step S202), and the corresponding field is obtained from the field list (step S203). It is determined whether or not the field data has been acquired (step S204), and the field data acquired in step S202 is poured into the field acquired in step S203 (step S205). When the flow of the field data is completed, the process returns to step S201. If it is determined in step S204 that the field could not be obtained, the process returns to step S201. Thereafter, steps S201 to S205 are repeated until there is no more field data.
[0029]
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of the field data filling process in step S205. The field data filling process analyzes an input picture of a field, cuts out a picture word (an input picture to be processed continuously is called a “picture word”, the same applies hereinafter), creates a data table, and creates a picture word. Expand the repetition notation into continuous picture characters and analyze the field data to form a field data word in the data table (the field data corresponding to the clipped picture word is called "field data word"; the same applies hereinafter). The field data is set in the field from the stored and created data table.
[0030]
First, the data table is initialized to empty (step S301). The data table is a table in the program work memory 906 for storing a set of a picture word, a data length, a data undefined flag, and a field data word described below.
[0031]
Next, a picture is analyzed and a picture word is cut out to create a data table (step S302). Further, if there is a repetition notation in the picture word of the created data table, it is developed into a continuous picture character without using the repetition notation (step S303), and the field data is analyzed and stored in the field data word of the data table. (Step S304).
[0032]
FIG. 16 is an example of the data table in the case of the field data “December 13, 2001” for the input picture “Y (0) year M (2) month DD day”. Finally, field data is set in the field based on the picture word and the field data word stored in the data table (step S305), and the process ends.
[0033]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the picture analysis processing in step S302. In the picture analysis processing, one picture word is cut out from a character string of an input picture that has not been processed yet, and a set of a picture word, the number of characters of field data words, an indefinite data length flag, and an empty field data word is added to a data table. It is.
[0034]
First, a variable PL0 representing the number of characters in the character string of the input picture of the field acquired in step S203 is set (step S401), and a variable PL representing the number of processed input picture characters is initialized to 0 (step S402).
[0035]
Next, PL is compared with PL0 (step S403). If PL is smaller, one picture word is cut out from the PL-th (0 origin) and subsequent characters of the unprocessed input picture, and the character string Is set in a variable PWS and the number of characters is set in a variable PWL (step S404).
[0036]
A picture word is an input picture to be processed continuously. This is a character string in which three types of characters constituting the input picture, characters of the same type, that is, type designation characters, skip characters, and fixed characters, are continuous. Repeat notation is regarded as the same type as the picture character to be repeated.
[0037]
For example, in the case of “Y (0) year M (2) month DD day”, “Y (0)”, “year”, “M (2)”, “month”, “DD”, and “day” are picture words. In step S404, the number of characters of the field data (field data word) to be received by the picture word is set to DWL, and the data length undefined flag indicating whether the number of characters of the field data word is undefined is set to the variable DWF.
[0038]
Next, a set of PWS, DWL, DWF and an empty field data word is added to the data table (step S405). Then, PWL is added to PL (step S406), and thereafter, steps S403 to S406 are repeated until all the input pictures have been processed, and the process is terminated. If all the input pictures have been processed, that is, if PL = PL0 is determined in step S403, the data table contains all the picture words constituting the input picture, the corresponding field data word length, and the data length undefined flag. An empty field data word set table is created.
[0039]
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the flow of the picture word cutout processing in step S404. The picture word segmentation process obtains the first character of an input picture that has not been processed yet, searches for a picture character until a different type of picture character from that picture character appears, or sequentially searches for the last picture character, and searches for the same type of character. It is cut out as a picture word composed of a picture character and its repetition notation.
[0040]
First, the PL-th (0 origin) character of the input picture is obtained and set in a variable P1 (step S501). Further, PWS representing the character string of the picture word, PWL representing the number of characters, DWL representing the number of characters of the field data (field data word) to be received by the picture word, and the number of characters of the field data word are indefinite, that is, the picture word is indefinitely repeated A variable DWF of a data length indefinite flag indicating whether the notation is used is initialized (step S502). PWS is P1, PWL is 1, DWL is 1, and DWF is OFF.
[0041]
Then, the next picture character is obtained and set in the variable P2 (step S503), and it is determined whether or not the next picture character has been obtained (step S504). If it can be obtained, it is determined whether or not P2 is the repetition number start character "(" (step S505). If it is not "(", it is determined whether P1 and P2 are the same type of picture character (step S506) (step S405), and if they are not the same type, the process is terminated; The character P2 is added to PWS and 1 is added to PWL (step S507), and the process returns to step S503.
[0042]
If P2 is "(" in step S505, a character string up to the repetition number end character ")" is set as a variable P3 and ")" is set as a variable P4 (step S508), and characters P2 to P4 are set in the character string PWS. Is added to the PWL by the number of characters of P3 (LEN (P3)) and 2 of the repeated characters (step S509).
[0043]
Then, it is determined whether or not P3 (always an integer of 0 or more) is "0" (step S510). If "0", DWF is turned on (step S511). -1 is added (step S512), and the process returns to step S503. Steps S503 to S512 are repeated until a different type of picture character appears or until all the input pictures are processed, the processing is terminated, and the character string PWS is cut out as a picture word (at this time, the cutout is set to PWL. The number of characters of the extracted picture word is included in the DWL, and the number of characters of the field data to be received by the extracted picture word is included in DWL).
[0044]
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of the picture expansion process in step S303. The picture expansion process obtains a value obtained by subtracting the sum of the field data word lengths of all the entries of the data table from the number of field data characters as the number of indefinite length data characters, and converts the number of indefinite length data characters into the field of the entry with the data length undefined flag OFF. This is added to the number of data word characters, and the description of the repetition notation is expanded into continuous picture characters.
[0045]
First, it is determined whether there is a first entry in the data table (step S601), and if there is an entry, the entry is acquired (step S602).
[0046]
Next, it is determined whether or not the DWF of the entry is ON (step S603). If it is ON, the value obtained by subtracting the sum of the DWLs of all the entries of the data table from the number of characters of the field data acquired in step S202 is the variable length data. It is set in a variable L representing the number of characters (step S604).
[0047]
L represents the number of characters of the field data to be included in the indefinite repetition notation included in the picture word PWS, and DWL is the number of characters of the field data word to be received including the indefinite repetition notation. If it is determined to be OFF in step S603, step S604 is skipped. Then, the description of the repetition notation is expanded into continuous picture characters (step S606), and the process returns to step S601 to repeat steps S601 to S606 for all data table entries, and ends the processing.
[0048]
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the flow of the repetition notation expansion process in step S303. The repetition notation expansion processing determines whether the number of repetitions of the repetition notation found by searching for the picture words of all entries in the data table is 0, and if the number of repetitions is 0, the indefinite number obtained in the picture expansion processing is determined. If the number of long data characters -1 is obtained as the number of expansions, and if the number of repetitions is not 0, the number of repetitions of the repetition notation -1 is obtained as the number of expansions. It is replaced by the number of expansions.
[0049]
First, a loop variable n is initialized to 0 (step S701). Then, the nth character of the PWS of the entry acquired in step S602 is set as a variable P1 and the (n + 1) th character is set as a variable P2 (step S702), and it is determined whether P2 has been acquired (step S703). If it is, the process ends. If acquired, it is determined whether P2 is the repetition number start character "(" (step S704), and if "(", the character string up to the repetition number end character ")" is set as the variable P3 and ")" is set as the variable P4. (Step S705) Then, it is determined whether P3 (always an integer greater than or equal to 0) is “0” (Step S706). If not “0”, the variable R is set to P3 (Step S707), and if “0”, , R to L (step S708) (step S512), and replace the character strings P2 to P4 of the character string PWS with (R-1) characters P1 (step S709).
[0050]
The number of characters of P3 and 2 of repeated characters are added to n (step S710), and if it is determined that it is not "(" in step S704, 1 is added to n (step S711) and it is determined whether n is smaller than the number of characters of PWS. (Step S712) If smaller, the process returns to Step S702, and Steps S702 to S712 are repeated until n becomes the number of PWS characters in Step S712 or until the (n + 1) th character of PWS cannot be obtained in Step S703. To end.
[0051]
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the flow of the field data analysis processing in step S304. In the field data analysis processing, a field data word is cut out from the unprocessed characters of the field data for the picture words of all entries of the data table and stored in the field data word of the data table.
[0052]
First, a variable DL0 representing the number of characters of the field data acquired in step S202 is set (step S801), and a variable DL representing the number of processed field data characters is initialized to 0 (step S802).
[0053]
Then, it is determined whether there is a first entry in the data table (step S803), and if there is no entry, the process ends. If there is an entry, the entry is obtained (step S804), one field data word is cut out from the DL-th (0 origin) and subsequent characters of the unprocessed field data, and the character string is obtained as the entry obtained in step S602. Is set to the variable DWL (step S805), DWL is added to DL (step S806), it is determined whether DL is smaller than DL0 (step S807), and if it is smaller, the process returns to step S803. .
[0054]
Thereafter, steps S803 to S807 are repeated until there is no more data table, or until all the field data has been processed, and the process is terminated. When the processing is completed, a character string is set in the field data word of each entry of the data table.
[0055]
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the flow of the field data word extraction processing in step S805. The field data word cutout process obtains unprocessed characters of the field data, obtains a picture character corresponding to the field data character of the cut out picture word, determines the type of the obtained picture character, and determines a fixed character. If it is, determine whether the acquired picture character is the same as the acquired field data character.If the type designating character, determine whether the acquired picture character is a type designating character that can receive the acquired field data character. Alternatively, the processing is looped until the end of the field data.
[0056]
First, DWS representing the character string of the field data word and DWL representing the number of characters are initialized (step S901). DWS is NULL (empty character) and DWL is 0. Further, a loop counter variable n is initialized to 0 (step S902).
[0057]
Next, a character of the (DL + n) -th (0 origin) field data that has not been processed is acquired and set in the variable D1 (step S903). It is determined whether or not D1 has been acquired (step S904), and if not, the process ends. If D1 can be acquired, the n-th (0 origin) picture character of the picture word PWS of the entry acquired in step S804 is set in the variable P1 (step S905), and the picture character type of P1 is determined (step S906). Switch.
[0058]
If P1 is a fixed character, it is determined whether P1 is the same as D1 (step S907). If not, an error process is performed (step S908), and the process ends. If P1 is a picture character, it is determined whether P1 is a type designating character that can receive D1 (step S909). If P1 is not a type designating character, error processing is performed (step S910), and the process ends. If P1 is a skip character in step S906, or if P1 is the same character as D1 in step S907, or if P1 is a picture character that can receive D1 in step S909, D1 is set to DWS and 1 is set to DWL. Is added (step S911), and 1 is added to n (step S912). Then, it is determined whether or not n is smaller than the number of characters PWL of the picture word (step S913). If it is smaller, the process returns to step S903, and steps S903 to S913 are repeated until n becomes equal to PWL, and the process ends.
[0059]
FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the flow of the field data set process in step S305. Field data set processing adds a set of missing picture words and empty field data to the data table for the data type of the field, complements the missing field data words in the data table, and replaces the field data in the data table. The validity range of the word is checked, and if there is no error, the field data is set in the field.
[0060]
First, a set of a missing picture word and an empty field data word for the field data type is added to the data table (step S1001).
[0061]
For example, a field whose data type is a date type stores the year, month, and year. If the input picture is “MMDD”, a picture word of “YYYY” and an empty field data word are paired in the data table. to add. Next, data of an empty field data word or a short field data word of the data table is complemented (step S1002).
[0062]
For example, if the field data word for the picture word "YYYY" is empty, the year of the year at the time of processing is set. Next, it is checked whether the data in the data table is out of the valid range for the data type of the field (step S1003). For example, for a date type field, it is checked whether the field data words for the picture word “MM” are “1” to “12”.
[0063]
It is determined whether the result of the check is an error (step S1004). If the validity check of the data is not an error, the field data obtained by combining the field word with the picture word of the type designation character in the data table is set in the field (step S1005). ). For example, when the date type data type field stores the number of days that have elapsed since January 1, 1900, a data table as shown in FIG. 16 may be used from January 1, 1900 to December 13, 2001. Set the number of days up to the field. If an error is detected in step S604, error processing is performed (step S1006), and the processing ends.
[0064]
As is clear from the above description, even when the number of characters of the field data is large, the number of characters of the input picture to be set can be reduced by using the repetition notation, so that the input on the input picture setting screen is facilitated, and the number of characters is reduced. Input errors can be reduced.
[0065]
Further, even when the number of characters of the field data is indefinite, when the field data is poured, it is possible to flow the field data stored in the data source without processing.
[0066]
[Other embodiments]
The present invention can be applied to a system including a plurality of devices (for example, a host computer, an interface device, a reader, a printer, etc.), but it can be applied to a device including one device (for example, a copier, a facsimile device, etc.). May be applied.
[0067]
Further, an object of the present invention is to provide a storage medium storing a program code of software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or an apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus to store the storage medium. It is needless to say that the present invention can also be achieved by reading and executing the program code stored in the program.
[0068]
In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the function of the above-described embodiment, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.
[0069]
As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy (registered trademark) disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, or the like is used. be able to.
[0070]
When the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also an OS (Operating System) running on the computer based on the instruction of the program code. It goes without saying that a part or all of the actual processing is performed and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.
[0071]
Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function expansion is performed based on the instruction of the program code. It goes without saying that a CPU or the like provided in the board or the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.
[0072]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to simplify the setting operation of the field attribute in the form processing in which the field data is poured into the fields in the form. In addition, it is possible to simplify the operation of filling the field data.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a form processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of data processing in the form processing device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a flow of data processing in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration of a form processing program in a storage medium constituting the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a memory map in a state in which a form processing program in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention is executable.
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a field list and field attributes in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a type of a picture character in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a field data type and an input picture setting screen in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of a data table created for one field and field data in the form processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (12)

A form processing apparatus for reading a field data source storing data to be poured into a field defined in a form, and flowing data of the field data source into a field in the form,
A reading unit that reads a character string that is a character string included in field attribute information set for each of the fields and that includes a character representing a format of data to be poured;
When pouring into the field, a recognition means for recognizing the number of repetitions for repeatedly pouring predetermined data from the read character string,
A form processing device, comprising: a filling unit that repeats the predetermined data into the field based on the recognized number of repetitions. A form processing apparatus for reading a field data source storing data to be poured into a field defined in a form, and flowing data of the field data source into a field in the form,
A reading unit that reads a character string that is a character string included in field attribute information set for each of the fields and that includes a character representing a format of data to be poured;
Recognition means for recognizing, from the character string, a character indicating that the data length of the poured data is variable,
Calculating means for calculating a difference between a data length derived from the character string and a data length of data of a field data source to be poured into a field corresponding to the character string;
From the data length calculated by the calculation means, the data length recognized by the recognition means is determined to determine the data length of the variable data, and based on the determined data length, the data of the field data source is converted to the field data. And a pouring means for pouring into a form. A form processing method for reading a field data source storing data to be poured into a field defined in a form, and flowing data of the field data source into a field in the form,
A reading step of reading a character string that is a character string included in the field attribute information set for each of the fields and that is composed of characters representing a format of the data to be poured;
When pouring into the field, a recognition step of recognizing the number of repetitions for repeatedly pouring predetermined data from the read character string,
A form processing method, comprising: a step of repeating the predetermined data based on the recognized number of repetitions and pouring the data into the field. A form processing method for reading a field data source storing data to be poured into a field defined in a form, and flowing data of the field data source into a field in the form,
A reading step of reading a character string that is a character string included in the field attribute information set for each of the fields and that is composed of characters representing a format of the data to be poured;
A recognition step of recognizing, from the character string, a character indicating that the data length of the poured data is variable;
A calculating step of calculating a difference between a data length derived from the character string and a data length of data of a field data source to be poured into a field corresponding to the character string;
From the data length calculated in the calculation step, the data length recognized in the recognition step is determined to determine the data length of the variable data, and based on the determined data length, the data of the field data source is converted to the field data. And a pouring step of pouring into a form. The character string is composed of a type designating character or a skip character or a fixed character or a repetition character or a combination thereof, and the type designating character indicates how to interpret data of a field data source flowing into a corresponding field. , The skip character indicates that any data is skipped among the data of the field data source flowing into the corresponding field, and the fixed character is a specific character among the data of the field data source flowing into the corresponding field. 5. The form processing method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the data indicates that data of a field data source that is to be flowed into a corresponding field is repeatedly flowed. . The form processing method according to claim 5, wherein when the repeated character is expressed as α (n), α is repeated n times. The form processing method according to claim 5, wherein when the repeated character is expressed as α (0), it means that the data length of data corresponding to the repeated character is variable. The pouring step includes:
Cutting out a character string to be processed continuously from the character string as a picture word;
Cutting out data of a field data source for the cut-out picture word as a field data word;
Determining whether the picture word is a type designating character, and if it is determined that the type word is a type designating character, generating a data table including a set of the picture word and a field data word,
5. The form processing method according to claim 3, wherein data of the field data source is poured into the field based on the data table. The field attribute information has a data type indicating a type of data of a field data source to be poured,
The filling step determines whether or not the number of the extracted picture words is correct based on the data type. If the number of the picture words is small, the missing picture words and the missing 9. The form processing method according to claim 8, further comprising adding a field data word corresponding to a missing picture word to the data table, and complementing the added field data word. 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the filling step determines whether or not the data of the field data source is valid based on the data type, and if the data is valid, flows the data into the field. Form processing method. A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the form processing method according to any one of claims 3 to 10. A control program for causing a computer to implement the form processing method according to any one of claims 3 to 10.

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