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Jag Badal

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:52 pm
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Hello,

I'm new to easytrieve and I'm trying to figure out a way to count the number of characters in a field.

For Example - We have a XYZ field with 10 Characters. If the the data in this field is less than 5 characters i.e. 12345 then the O/P should look like XXXXXXXX45. If it has 10 characters i.e. ABCD567890 then the O/P should look like ABXX5XXX90.

Using Cobol, this would have been an easy ask - I would have used inspect and reference modification to achieve my goal. However, I need to write this piece of logic using easytrieve.

Is there a way to count the number of characters in a field in Easytrieve ?
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Jag Badal

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:47 pm
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Never mind, resolved it.

Used a workaround for it i.e. arrays, looping and concatenation.

Thank you.
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