How to process file with variable lenght fields

vd120 · New User Joined: 06 Nov 2010 Posts: 24 Location: NYC

Hello,

I'm looking for idea how to process record with variable field lengs.
Record example:
abs12 xcd23456 xz1 dfn243ntbr

Fields are different in the size and number of fields can be different as well, so using PARSE doen't looks as a good idea. There is a space charachter in between fields and file has only a couple of records.

Can some one through good idea how to process it in the REXX, by process I mean to separate every field from the record to a veriable (fld.1, fld.2, fld.3 ....)

Thank you.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:12 am

Hello,

expat · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 12:34 pm

If you can not understand how PARSE works, then look at using WORDS and WORD.