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jcbrowser

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:34 pm
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In my program I am receiving a parm string of 10 characters.

I need to extract everything but the spaces and place that data into a field whos length is equal to the number of characters extracted.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Examples; (@ is a space)

'@@@@ABCD@@' result 'ABCD' length 4 no trailing or leading spaces
'@@@@AB@@@@' result 'AB' length 2 no trailing or leading spaces
'@@A@@@@@@@' result 'A' length 1 no trailing or leading spaces
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William Thompson

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:11 pm
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This should come close..... icon_biggrin.gif
Code:
working storage:
01 save.
   05 save-size pic s9(4) comp.
   05 save-area pic x occurs 100 times
                      depending on save-size.
linkage:
01 parm.
   05 parm-size pic s9(4) comp.
   05 parm-area pic x occurs 100 times
                      depending on parm-size.
procedure:
Perform varying x from 1 by 1 until x > parm-size
   if parm-area(x:1) = space
      continue
   else
      unstring parm-area(x:function length(parm-area + 1) - x)
         into save-area delimited by spaces
            count in save-length
      end-unstring
   end-fi
end-perform
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jcbrowser

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:26 pm
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Thanks William, I will give that a try icon_biggrin.gif
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