How to get the URL which is placed randomly in a file.

dkarthikreddy · New User Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 28 Location: bangalore

Hi,

I have a requirement like this.

In a file with record length of 80 i wil be getting a URL ( eg. Use [URL] BBCode for External Links ) and i dont know the position of it and this URL is preceded and succeded by some dots(..) or blank spaces.

Now i want to pick this and write it into output file using cobol pgm.

Could any one suggest how to do this.

Thanks
Karthik

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:49 pm

Scan the variable using reference modification to find the www (assuming there is a www, of course)? URL names can be so variable that finding the end of it could be tough (.tv, .edu, .org, .com, country-specific endings such as .ca). Any chance you can get the application creating the file to put some kind of delimiter around the URL?