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Exclude rows with > than x occurrences of a specified char


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Beinlich Dahl

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:30 am
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Hi.

Context of question.
I'm loading a db2 table using a CSV file, where the column delimitor is semicolon (x'5E' for most/all ebcdic tables). The problem is that there is a free text column where someone has entered semicolon, this confuses db2 load of course which then interpret this as extra column delimitor. I want to remove rows with ; in free text from input file.

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Is there a sort which can take a VB file with LRECL 27994 as input, then exclude the rows not containing exactly 109 occurences of ;?
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Joerg.Findeisen

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:55 am
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Please provide a sample to test with. It should/will be possible I guess.
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Joerg.Findeisen

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:05 pm
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See if this is of help. It includes only 9 semicolons for output, if additional are found they are dropped.

Code:
//WHATEVER EXEC PGM=ICEMAN                     
//SORTIN   DD *                                 
;;;;;;;;;                                       
;;;;;;;;;;                                     
/*                                             
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*                         
//SORTOUT  DD SYSOUT=*                         
//SYSIN    DD *                                 
  OPTION COPY                                   
  INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,                     
    PARSE=(%=(STARTAT=C';';FIXLEN=1,REPEAT=9), 
           %01=(STARTAT=C';',FIXLEN=1)),       
    BUILD=(81:%01))                             
  OUTFIL FNAMES=(SORTOUT),                     
    INCLUDE=(81,1,CH,EQ,C' ')                   
  END                                           
/*
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Beinlich Dahl

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:50 pm
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The job ran fine, and in SORTOUT there is one row as expected. The problem is that the single row in SORTOUT is only spaces, I would hope to see the original input there.
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Beinlich Dahl

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:52 pm
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Sample data, I use VB 27994 as input file.

aa;g;dd;kkk;111;;;uu;
aa;;g;dd;kkk;111;;;uu;;
aa;;g;dd;kkk;111;;;uu;

In my actual problem, the rows has thousands of characters, and the rows I want to keep has exactly 108 occurences of ;
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sergeyken

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:09 pm
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Beinlich Dahl wrote:
Hi.

Context of question.
I'm loading a db2 table using a CSV file, where the column delimitor is semicolon (x'5E' for most/all ebcdic tables). The problem is that there is a free text column where someone has entered semicolon, this confuses db2 load of course which then interpret this as extra column delimitor. I want to remove rows with ; in free text from input file.

The question
Is there a sort which can take a VB file with LRECL 27994 as input, then exclude the rows not containing exactly 109 occurences of ;?


If this semicolon as a part of free text field is not quoted within single or double quotes, then there is no chance to distinguish between normal separator and this fake one, even by human mind, to say nothing about AI.

AFAIR the DB2 LOAD/UNLOAD utilities do recognize quoted free text automatically, don't they?
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Joerg.Findeisen

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:44 am
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Beinlich Dahl wrote:
The job ran fine, and in SORTOUT there is one row as expected. The problem is that the single row in SORTOUT is only spaces, I would hope to see the original input there.

Code:
OPTION COPY                                   
INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,                     
  PARSE=(%=(STARTAT=C';';FIXLEN=1,REPEAT=9), 
         %01=(STARTAT=C';',FIXLEN=1)),       
  OVERLAY=(81:%01))                           
OUTFIL FNAMES=(SORTOUT),                     
  INCLUDE=(81,1,CH,EQ,C' '),                 
  BUILD=(1,80)                               
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