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Charles Wolters

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:39 pm
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Does anyone have a copy of Frank Yaeger's article: DFSORT: Parsing Delimited & Variable Length Fields? I think it was originally published in z/Journal in 2007 but its URL appears defunct. I did find a reprint at the following Web site but the figures cited by Frank are missing and it would be more informative with the figures. The article is very well written for a parsing newbie like myself.

enterprisesystemsmedia.com/article/dfsort-parsing-delimited-variable-length-fields

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Bill O'Boyle

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Did you search the IBM Mainframes DFSORT forum, for Frank Yeager/Yaeger posts? Could very well be that he posted it there as well.

HTH....
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Google found it for me at enterprisesystemsmedia.com/article/dfsort-parsing-delimited-variable-length-fields#sr=g&m=o&cp=or&ct=-tmc&st=%28opu%20qspwjefe%29&ts=1452629152
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Except that's the same link which Charles provided :-)
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I've rebuilt the examples from the text. Note that there are "scannos" in the text as well (failure of the Optical Character Recognition after text is scanned).

Figure 1

Code:
  OPTION COPY
  INREC PARSE=(%00=(ENDBEFR=C',',
                    FIXLEN=8),
               %01=(ENDBEFR=C',',
                    PAIR=QUOTE,
                    FIXLEN=25),
               %02=(FIXLEN=7)),
        BUILD=(%00,
               %01,
                JFY=(SHIFT=LEFT,PREBLANK=C'"'),
               %02)


Data:
Code:
APRIL,"REX,SELF,DUMBO",GRAY


Output:
Code:
APRIL   REX,SELF,DUMBO           GRAY



Figure 2

Code:
  INREC PARSE=(%00=(ABSPOS=6,
                    ENDBEFR=C';',
                    FIXLEN=7),
               %=(ENDBEFR=C';'),
               %01=(ENDBEFR=C';',
                    FIXLEN=12),
               %02=(FIXLEN=12)),
        OVERLAY=(41:
                  %02,
                 55:
                  %01,
                 70:
                  %00,
                   UFF,TO=PD,LENGTH=4)
                                     
  SORT FIELDS=(41,12,CH,A,
               55,12,CH,A,
               70,4,CH,A)
                                     
  OUTREC BUILD=(1,40)


Data:
Code:
0001;16,786;R732;SUE V;RITZ
0002;20;SALES;RUPERT THE;BEAR
0003;10.01;R732;SUE V;RITZ


Output:
Code:
0002;20;SALES;RUPERT THE;BEAR
0003;10.01;R732;SUE V;RITZ   
0001;16,786;R732;SUE V;RITZ 



Figure 3

Code:
  INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 PARSE=(%1=(STARTAFT=C'FIRST=',
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=8))),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 PARSE=(%2=(STARTAFT=C'MIDDLE=',
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=12))),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 PARSE=(%3=(STARTAFT=C'LAST=',
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=12))),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 PARSE=(%4=(STARTAFT=C'PROFIT=',
                            STARTAFT=C'LOSS=',
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=7))),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 BUILD=(%01,
                        %02,
                        %03,
                        %04,
                          SFF,
                          EDIT=(IIT.TTS),
                          SIGNS=(,,+,-)))
  SORT FIELDS=COPY


Data:
Code:
MIDDLE=JEFFERSON FIRST=GEORGE LAST=WASHINGTON LOSS=152.03-
 FIRST=SPACE                               LAST=SHIP


Output:
Code:
GEORGE  JEFFERSON   WASHINGTON  152.03-
SPACE               SHIP          0.00+


The article is indeed very good, as it shows some powerful use of PARSE, and trickier to follow without the examples.

I've included a link to this in the comments part of the article.
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There is a way to use ABSPOS=1, discussed by Frank Yaeger in the article, for the final example, so that the PARSE can be done only once:

Code:
  INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                      OVERLAY=(81:
                                C' FIRST= ',
                                C' LAST= ',
                                C' MIDDLE= ',
                                C' PROFIT= ',
                                C' LOSS= ')),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 PARSE=(%1=(STARTAFT=C'FIRST=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=8),
                        %2=(STARTAFT=C'MIDDLE=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=12),
                        %3=(STARTAFT=C'LAST=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=12),
                        %4=(STARTAFT=C'PROFIT=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            STARTAFT=C'LOSS=',
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=7))),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 BUILD=(%01,
                        %02,
                        %03,
                        %04,
                          SFF,
                          EDIT=(IIT.TTS),
                          SIGNS=(,,+,-)))
 SORT FIELDS=COPY


The code ensures that a parameter will always be found, even if not existing in the source data, by adding all the valid parameters to the end of each record.

In itself, not especially useful, but it is a very convenient way to set default values for keyword-field parsing.

Code:
  INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                      OVERLAY=(81:
                                C' FIRST=JOE ',
                                C' LAST=BLOGS ',
                                C' MIDDLE=X ',
                                C' PROFIT=+30.00 ',
                                C' LOSS= ')),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 PARSE=(%1=(STARTAFT=C'FIRST=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=8),
                        %2=(STARTAFT=C'MIDDLE=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=12),
                        %3=(STARTAFT=C'LAST=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=12),
                        %4=(STARTAFT=C'PROFIT=',
                            ABSPOS=1,
                            STARTAFT=C'LOSS=',
                            ENDBEFR=C' ',FIXLEN=7))),
        IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,
                 BUILD=(%01,
                        %02,
                        %03,
                        %04,
                          SFF,
                          EDIT=(IIT.TTS),
                          SIGNS=(,,+,-)))
 SORT FIELDS=COPY


The actual example doesn't lend itself to defaults as such, but serves. Here is the output from a blank line of input:

Code:
JOE     X           BLOGS        30.00+


It's also a good example for the use of DFSORT symbols/SYMNAMES...
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