RE: Scanning a STMF for a string

So basically you are looking for foo=" and then want to take the next 20
characters that is then followed by " or the Quotes is only there for
the example. It that case you are looking for foo= and want the next 20
characters to then write to a data area. I don't think any generic
string command will do that. You will have to roll your own.



Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


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Subject: Re: Scanning a STMF for a string

David Gibbs wrote:

James H. H. Lampert wrote:

I'm trying to avoid reinventing any wheels here: does anybody know of

an

easy way to scan an entire stream file for a string?

grep in qshell?

Maybe. Allow me to elaborate:

Somewhere, buried in the stream file of arbitrary length, there may or
may not be a string of the form

foo="<block of 20 characters>"

We don't know what <block of 20 characters> is, and that's what we want
to retrieve.

For example,
foo="A1B2C3D4E5F6G7H8I9J0"
or
foo="1J2I3H4G5F6E7D8C9B0A"

The object here is for a program, operating without any human
intervention, to find the string, and copy the block of 20 characters
into a *DTAARA.

Any ideas?