I hope someone can show me the error of my ways...
I'm using INREC PARSE to parse a VB pipe-delimited dataset. My goal is to produce a VB output file in which the first few output fields are the parsed fields, followed by the original pipe-delimited record.
E.g., if the input file is LRECL=30 and consists of these two records:
I had thought that by specifying ABSPOS=5, that I would be setting the parse pointer back to column 5 (i.e., the start of the data in the original VB record), and therefore %99 would contain 30 bytes starting at that position (which would be the original pipe-delimited record). But I'm getting blanks in those columns. I've obviously misunderstood something... can anyone help?
That worked perfectly; thank you! It's also much more straightforward than my approach.
If anyone has time, I'm curious to know where I went wrong in my approach re: ABSPOS (i.e., I love to know why my solution produced blanks instead of the original pipe-delimited record).
