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divakaran
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Hi,
Anyone know how to eliminate low values or to identify low-values in a variable in REXX.
I am populating a field from a table the table is returning low values.I want to replace the low values by spaces or zeroes.
Thanks in advance. |
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Nic Clouston
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| use index or pos to find the position of the first x'00' (I presume that that is what you mean by low values) and use that to provide overlay or substr with the information to put in a space. |
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Stefan
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The TRANSLATE function does what its name already implies.
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| new_string = translate(string,'F0'x,'00'x) |
Copy the content of variable <string> to variable <new_string> and replace all low values (hex 00) by the character 0 (hex F0). |
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Bill Woodger
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| divakaran wrote: |
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I am populating a field from a table the table is returning low values.I want to replace the low values by spaces or zeroes.
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If you're getting data from a table, why do you suddenly feel the need to change it?
Or, perhaps more likely, why don't you change your program to only access valid entries in the table? |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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changing the data in your rexx is the ass backwards way to do it.
when you say table, is it a db2 table or an ispf table?
if db2, what is the datatype of the column?
if char, use the REPLACE function in your SQL.
if not char, what then?
if it is an ispf table, the place to change it is when the ispf table is created. |
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