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Musab Razeen Ahmed

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:42 pm
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Hi All,

I have a doubt as how DFSORT interprets the character SPACE when we sum a field specified as ZD when it contains a space along with numbers.

eg input files is as follows


01|MUSAB||10
01|MUSAB|02|
01|AHMED||30

| indicates SPACE
and the sort card is as below.

SORT FIELDS=(1,2,ZD,A)
SUM FIELDS=(10,3,ZD)

the result shows as 01|MUSAB|060.

Will DFSORT always interpret the Space as zero(0)? If yes, then does it mean that it does not make any difference if there is a space or zero(0) when summing up fields specified as ZD?

Could anyone please help me over this?

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Bill Woodger

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:18 pm
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Appendix C of the "DFSORT Application Programming Guide" should give you the answers you want. Let us know if anything is not clear.
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Frank Yaeger

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:42 pm
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DFSORT sees a space as X'40'. In the last byte, this is interpreted as a plus sign and a decimal 0 digit. In the other bytes, this is interpreted as a zone (ignored) and a decimal 0 digit. So a space will, in fact, be treated as a 0.
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