Is there any Function to find Special Characters

anandinmainframe · Active User Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 171 Location: India

Hi All,
Is there any Function to find Special Characters in a String in Easytrieve.
For eg: First Name is Anand$
Last Name is Murugesan%
here i want to verify each and every character whether it is an alphabet(Capital or small) or spaces. if it is Alphabets or spaces then i dont want them if it is special character then i need those records.
First Name starts at 10 length 30
Last Name starts at 20 length 40

expat · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:58 am

It might help if you told us which of the CA products that you are using, or planning to use.

anandinmainframe · Active User Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 171 Location: India

Expat,
I am using CA-EASYTRIEVE PLUS-6.3 version.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:58 pm

Hello,

Easytrieve 6.3 is way out of date. . . It is also out of support. . .

To do what you want, make an array of the "good" values (letters, spaces - numerics?) and compare each character (make this an array also) of the "input" to that array.

anandinmainframe · Active User Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 171 Location: India

Dick,
Thanks for the response. I declared group variables and checked each and every character. it worked.

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:42 pm

You're welcome

Good to hear it is working - thanks for letting us know.

d

kratos86 · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:25 am

Hi expat,

Is there any option available in CA-EASYTRIEVE PLUS-6.4 version.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:17 pm

Hello,

The solution above will work for 6.4 also.

I know of no built-in Easytrieve function.