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renjithravi
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HI,
I have a variable declared in PLI as char..this variable contains about 10,000 length of data. The data has special characters, numbers and alphabets. I want to search the occurance of 6 consecutive numbers in this set of 10000 characters. Which function in PLI i can use it and how to use it. Please help me in this.
Thanks and regards
Renjith |
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Srihari Gonugunta
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| try INDEX |
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ashimer
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RESULT = INDEX('SHARP FORTUNE','R');
this will give you value 4 ...INDEX function always looks for the left most occurence of the string mentioned ...now if you want to search for the 2nd occurence of R give
RESULT = INDEX('SHARP FORTUNE','R',5); ... or
RESULT = INDEX('SHARP FORTUNE','R',INDEX('SHARP FORTUNE','R')+1); |
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renjithravi
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Hope you have misunderstood my scenario...
i have a variable declared like this
DCL A CHAR(1000) INIT 'FJDJOOIIPIPI1256978KFDFKDK.....'
i want to search the occurance of six consecutive numbers from the variable A i.e. 125697.... |
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ashimer
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| RESULT = INDEX(A,'1256978'); this will give value of result as 13 ... try it out ... |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| Hope you have misunderstood my scenario... |
Possibly because you have not provided a clear definition. . .
Do you want the location of the first occurence any 6 digits or do you want the location of the first occurence of "125697"?
What about multiple occurences of 6 digits in the string?
You need to post multiple sample "input" strings and what you want as "output" for each input string from the new process. |
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murugan_mf
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| You have to write your own logic using SEARCH and SUBSTR builtin functions. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| You have to write your own logic using SEARCH and SUBSTR builtin functions. |
How will SEARCH and SUBSTR identify the position of 6 consecutive numbers?
It may not matter as Renjith has neither provided the requested info nor even replied in over a month. . . |
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murugan_mf
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using SEARCH find out the position of first occurence of number.
Again SEARCH for next occurence of number(strating from previous position) , and subtract with previous position(see whether it is zero or not)..
Finally use SUBSTR to extract the string.
But here we have take care that we need 6 consecutive numbers |
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enrico-sorichetti
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the quick and dirty way is to go for a two stage approach
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work_string=translate(orig_string,'$$$$$$$$$$','0123456789')
ofst = index(work_string,'$$$$$$')
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the $ is a place holder, use a character that will not be in Your string |
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