Alder Books Reconciliation: Fixed-width GL feed with one record a byte short
Fixed-width GL feed with one record a byte short for Alder Books Reconciliation. The same 66 records as gl-feed-fixed-width.txt except that record 5 is 119 characters instead of 120: the final character of the 4-character currency field has been lost. Every other record is correct, so a reader that splits on newlines and slices by position reads USD as US on that one record and carries on silently.
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- Document Set
- accounting
- Industry
- finance
- Source Kit
- accounting-reconciliation
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Records
- 66
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Specifications
- Document Set
- accounting
- Industry
- finance
- Source Kit
- accounting-reconciliation
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Records
- 66
- Declared Record Length
- 120
- Short Record Number
- 5
- Short Record Length
- 119
- Intentionally Invalid
- true
Testing contract
Expected to fail- Scenario
- Parse the feed by column position and check every record length before slicing it.
- Expected result
- Record 5 is 119 characters where the layout declares 120. A length check rejects it; a reader that slices without checking returns a currency of US for that record and correct values for all the others, which is exactly the class of truncation that survives into a posted ledger.
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