Need help in rexx .

hiabra79 · New User Joined: 27 Mar 2014 Posts: 1 Location: india

Hi i need help in reading a file using rexx. I want to read input file line by line and copy the words in an array.

Akatsukami · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:33 pm

Please tell the precise problem that you are having. Show code and data enclosed in Code tags to align them, a relevant portion of the trace, and the error message(s) including the message number(s).

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:06 am

Or read up on EXECIO. You can do that in 3 statements including dataset (not file) allocation and free. Note that Rexx does not have arrays but stem variables.

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:48 am

I don't know much about REXX but this is what I can suggest you to start with along with others,

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:03 pm

Rohit,

I feel I just wasted my time posting my response the way I did. I could easily have done what you did but then it would just be cut and pasted and nothing learned.

If TS is keen then he will still go and read up on EXECIO and probably should as there is a very nice subtlety with EXECIO which makes reading the stem afterwards a doddle.

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:39 pm

Nic,

I concur with you and I should have been a silent being what you posted.
I take this as a note ..

TS,
Please have a gogle or a forum search done and I am sure you would get many information to start with Nic's suggestion and may be starting from ,

www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/tipstechniques/applicationdevelopment/A-Beginner-s-Guide-to-the-REXX-Programming-Languag/