Need to separate a string

dilpreet · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 34 Location: INDIA

I have a string say ' Rajesh Kumar Sinha' which i am getting from a file record and can be of maximum length of 50

I want result in 3 variables as

First name = Rajesh
Middle name = Kumar
Last name = Sinha

what is the best possible way to get the result?

CICS Guy · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:21 am

Start with the UNSTRING statement.....

Succor · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:22 am

Certainly unstring suits best for your requirement.....try reference modification ....probably the second best in this context

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WTF

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:25 am

Hello,

As posted, a simple UNSTRING will decompose the 3-part name into 3 separate fields.

If you are not already comfortable with UNSTRING, i'd suggest you write the code needed to read a bt of 3-part test names and unstring them.

Then, you might consider additional functionality - like: What should happen when there are only 2 name "pieces" or if there are 4.

dilpreet · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 34 Location: INDIA

Is this the way to do this

Unstring Input
delimited by Spaces into field1, field2, field3

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:45 am

Hello,

Basically, yes.

Suggest you compile the code and run a few different sets of input data.

Before issuing the unstring, move spaces to the output area(s).

dilpreet · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 34 Location: INDIA

Thanks alot

Terry Heinze · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:33 pm

You might want to code for the possibility of having more than 1 space between names.

CICS Guy · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:37 pm

When DELIMITED BY ALL is not specified, and two or more contiguous occurrences of any delimiter are encountered, the current data receiving field (identifier-4) is filled with spaces or zeros, according to the description of the data receiving field.

mnnarayankar · New User Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 23 Location: bangalore

Hi,

This is very simplest work. you can do it by unstring as well reference modification.

But I would like to say you use reference modification.
First name = Rajesh
Middle name = Kumar
Last name = Sinha

String - 'Rajesh Kumar Sinha'

move Rajesh Kumar Sinha(1:6) to First-name.
move Rajesh Kumar Sinha(8:5) to Middle-name.
move Rajesh Kumar Sinha(15:5) to Last-name.

and display all variable you will get your answer.

Thanks & Regards,

Mohan Nagnath Narayankar

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:27 pm

Hello,

mnnarayankar · New User Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 23 Location: bangalore

Yes Dick You are correct.

Sorry for misguide. If reading a data from file then best option to be used is UNSTRING.

Thanks & Regards,
Mohan Narayankar