PARSE using REPEAT

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jerryte

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Joined: 29 Oct 2010
Posts: 202
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

The below statement fails with error "DUPLICATE PARSED FIELD DEFINITION" on the second "REPEAT=2":

Code:

OUTREC PARSE=(%=(ENDBEFR=TAB,REPEAT=4),
%01=(ENDBEFR=TAB,FIXLEN=15),
%=(ENDBEFR=TAB,REPEAT=2),
%02=(ENDBEFR=TAB,FIXLEN=20)),
BUILD=(%01,X,
%02,X)

The below works using the same statment twice:

Code:

OUTREC PARSE=(%=(ENDBEFR=TAB,REPEAT=4),
%01=(ENDBEFR=TAB,FIXLEN=15),
%=(ENDBEFR=TAB),
%=(ENDBEFR=TAB),
%02=(ENDBEFR=TAB,FIXLEN=20)),
BUILD=(%01,X,
%02,X)

The reference manual does not state a limit to how many times a REPEAT can be used. Any ideas why this fails? I want to skip some parsed fields to get to the ones that I want.

Joerg.Findeisen

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Joined: 15 Aug 2015
Posts: 1252
Location: Bamberg, Germany

jerryte wrote:

I want to skip some parsed fields to get to the ones that I want.

Use larger increments for your parsed fields as a workaround. Sample:

Code:

OPTION COPY
OUTREC PARSE=(%=(ENDBEFR=BLANKS,REPEAT=4),
%00=(ENDBEFR=BLANKS,FIXLEN=2),
%=(ENDBEFR=BLANKS,REPEAT=2),
%10=(ENDBEFR=BLANKS,FIXLEN=2),
%=(ENDBEFR=BLANKS,REPEAT=9),
%20=(ENDBEFR=BLANKS,FIXLEN=2)),
BUILD=(..)
END

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