Change all command - Without disturbing spaces

Ramya A · Active User Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 104

Hi,

In my rexx code I'm using an ISREDIT command to change a variable name into a value. I.e,

"C ALL #MDYY" dateval

Where dateval = 09092007

The dataset that I'm going to apply this edit command can have either of the below format:

XXXXXXXX #MDYY UUUUU (2 spaces between the variable and next char)
OR
XXXXXXXX #MDYY#YDMM (no space between the variable and next char)

When I apply the change command, it changes the 2 space after the variable to one space (If no space available, it works fine) as shown below:

XXXXXXXX 09092007 UUUUU (only one space in between)
OR
XXXXXXXX 09092007#YDMM

But I do not want the 2 spaces to be reduced to one in the first case...Do you know if there is any way to do this with CHANGE command??

Any help on this would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:55 pm

Try this (note the quotes):

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:03 am

Hello,

When the value has no space(s) between the 2 "fields", i believe other code is needed.

Another thought might be to change the "#MDYY" to ##MMDDYY which will be the same length as the date and no shifting will occur. . .

Ramya A · Active User Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 104

Thanks a lot!!

As Dick mentioned, using a variable name of the same length of the value was my only option and I'm using it in my program. Now things are working fine (though i had to do lot of changes

).

The fine manual was helped me to understand why this was happening...

Thanks again!

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:53 am

You're welcome.

Thanks for letting us know it is working