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Can we retrieve part of SYMNAME value?
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Ramanan-R

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:38 pm
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Hi All,

Can we retrieve part of SYMNAME value?

I have an input file like below,

Code:

Ramanan,1234.5678


The SYMNAME dataset has
Name,1,10,CH
Value,3,9,CH

Is there any way to retrieve only first three characters of Name, i.e Ram and 1234.56 (truncate two decimal places) of Value alone to output dataset.

Please don't suggest relative position method, because my input dataset is 700 byte long and there are around 60 fields defined with SYMNAMES. My requirement is to retrieve part of data from certain columns (SYMNAMES).

Can we handle using ICETOOL?

Thanks in advance,
Ramanan R
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khamarutheen

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:54 pm
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Ramanan,

I dont understand your requirement clearly .. can you plz detail ur req ...
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Ramanan-R

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:31 pm
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Hi Khamarutheen,

I have an input file with record as below

Code:

Ramanan   ,1234.5678


and SYMNAME dataset (with Symbols for fields) has below definition

Field name,Starting position,Length,Data type
Name,1,10,CH
Value,12,9

Now, i want output file with record as below,
Ram,1234.56

i.e i need a substring from Symbols Name and Value. Hope its clear.

Please let me know, if you need more info.

Thanks.

Regards,
Ramanan R
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Frank Yaeger

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:34 pm
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There's no substring function per se. But you could use DFSORT's POSITION,symbol function to add the substring symbols you need. For example:

Code:

//SYMNAMES DD DSN=...  symbol data set
//  DD *               
POSITION,Name           
S_Name,=,3             
POSITION,Value         
S_Value,=,7             
/*                     


The resulting symbols would be:

Code:

Name,1,10,CH     
Value,12,9,CH   
S_Name,1,3       
S_Value,12,7     


Then you can use S_Name and S_Value in your control statements.
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