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Aham
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| Is there a way I can find out the absolute position of a string in a record so that I can process it further. I have an input file and there are more than one record types in them. They may a have a string say 'Account name' in diffenet positions and based on the starting of them my further processing should be done. Logical record length is too high and also there are substaintial type of records. So using the IFTHEN WHEN is not feasible. Is that possible to get the absolute position of the string? |
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Aham
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 no replies for my post. my question sounds so inane ?  |
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Frank Yaeger
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Do you mean "inane" or "insane"? 
There's no built-in function to get the absolute position of a string. Since you ruled out IFTHEN, I had nothing to offer and so didn't post a reply. |
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Craq Giegerich
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| Is there a way I can find out the absolute position of a string in a record so that I can process it further. I have an input file and there are more than one record types in them. They may a have a string say 'Account name' in diffenet positions and based on the starting of them my further processing should be done. Logical record length is too high and also there are substaintial type of records. So using the IFTHEN WHEN is not feasible. Is that possible to get the absolute position of the string? |
Use reference modification with a variable for the start position and do a perform varying to look for a match with your literal. |
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Frank Yaeger
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| Use reference modification with a variable for the start position and do a perform varying to look for a match with your literal. |
I assume your proposed solution has nothing to do with DFSORT - right? (You might have mentioned that considering this is the DFSORT/ICETOOL Forum.) |
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acevedo
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A little Cobol program or even a smaller Rexx program would do the job.
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Aaru
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Aham,
Yes, You can use REXX to find the absolute posiiton of the string. You can make use of the Keyword POS .
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What processing are you going to do after finding the absolute position? |
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Aham
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Thanks a lot for all your replies.
Frank - You are equally good in being humerous too I can get your point.
Aaru - I am totally new to REXX. After getting the position I would execute a cobol program based on the record type identifed. So I want to write this position to a record. Is that possible ? |
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Alain Benveniste
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Aham,
What do you mean by
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Is there a way I can find out the absolute position of a string in a record so that I can process it further
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Depending on your reply and if you could post how your recs look like I could take a look to find a dfsort solution.
alain |
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