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ankit saxena
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how to check if a variable contains only alphabets or it has any special character or commas , fullstop also.
thanks.. |
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Phrzby Phil
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What's fullstop?
Did you try anything yourself? What happened when you did? |
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ankit saxena
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actually i want to check whether t DSN name given by a user is proper or not for this i need to check whether it is free from any spl character apart from scope terminator (.) ,
but i m not getting any logic ... as to how to check. |
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Akatsukami
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| Get the EBCDIC ranges of the permitted characters; check each character in the purported DSN for these values (I'm not a COBOL programmer, but surely it has built-in functions like VERIFY, yes?). |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
You might consider defining a 1-byte working-storage field that has an 88-level that includes all of the valid values for your process.
Then compare each input byte against this (in a loop using reference modification, indexing, or subscripting). . . |
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GuyC
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