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angel246
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Hi ,
I need the sort card to find out the characters which are repeated in a particular field. the i/p file is as mentioned below
Denise Terry 101 Healthcare
Harrison Robbert 102 ECE
Harrison Jaccob 103 Manufacturing
I/P file Layout as follow: 1-25[ Person Name] 26-3 [emp#] 30-10[Dept]
Need to extract the chars which are repeated in Person Name field i.e 1-25 position and display those characters in output file
The output should be:
R ------> for 1st rec
R,B ------> for 2nd Rec
R,C ------> for 3rd rec
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Joerg.Findeisen
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| Your attempts to achieve that are? |
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Joerg.Findeisen
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Basically you can get results as
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Denise Terry r
Harrison Robbert r b
Harrison Jaccob r c
Sauerstoffflasche ff |
The problem is with the last entry where you have three repeating chars. |
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sergeyken
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SORT is not convenient for a task of this kind. It resembles using a screwdriver for hammering nails: this is also possible, but highly inconvenient.
Are you familiar with any other mainframe tool? There are plenty of much more suitable ones. |
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angel246
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| yeah i can understand sort is not convenient way but It was asked in one of interviews i said it can be achieved in cobol using Inspect but he asked me to do in SORT . So i am curious to know. |
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sergeyken
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Something like this is possible, though senseless...
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Denise Terry r
Harrison Robbert r,b
Harrison Jaccob r,c
Sauerstoffflasche ff
Aabbccddeeffgghhh b,c,d,e,f,g,hh
Drossellklappann s,l,p,n |
Serious drawback: 'A' != 'a' |
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angel246
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| sort card plz to achieve this? |
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sergeyken
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| angel246 wrote: |
| sort card plz to achieve this? |
First of all, please show us any of your own efforts.
The style of this forum is supposed to be as follows:
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I need to do the task like <this>
I tried to achieve it using <this> method, and used <this> code to perform it.
I expected to get the results like <this> and <this>, but instead I received <this> result, and <this> messages.
Please advise, what did I wrong, or how to find the reason of misbehavior?
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Instead of said above your style of discussion is as follows:
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I have a requirement to do <this> and <this>.
I'm new to mainframe (or to Computer Science), so I have not a minor idea: how it can be done?
Please, do my full job for me, if you can.
Thank you |
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angel246
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Currently i dont have mainframe id as i lost my job i started attending interviews ..this is one of interview questions which i faced in one of interviews..I tried to figure out by thinking of all the options in sort based on my knowledge..but i couldnt get it..if i get any online sort compiler i can try like cobol online compiler for cobol program.
I checked in google to get the sort card which can do the count of the repeated occurrence of characters in a field i couldnt get it |
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sergeyken
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Access to mainframe would not help unless one has got any minor idea in his mind. Access to documentation is required.
In the interview usually nobody is given access to a computer, too. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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Cleaned up the post ..
if it was asked in an interview then am moving to another meter view section of this forum and also please use code tags while representing any data or code.
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