Re: Web apps on the AS/400

From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400


> maybe RPG isn't so bad after all  :-)
> Here is another string problem:
> 
> Given a string char(50), replace all
> EMBEDDED spaces with hyphens,
> but leave leading and trailing spaces alone.
> E.g. "     this is a test      "
> should become   "     this_is_a_test      "
> :

solution in MI:

time to write: 3 min
time to run (100000 times) 2.4 secs. on 150 box
code:

DCL DD THE-STRING  CHAR(50);
DCL DD THE-RESULT  CHAR(50);
DCL DD SIZE  BIN(2);
DCL DD START BIN(2);
DCL DD END   BIN(2);
DCL DD NBR   BIN(4);
    CPYBLAP     THE-STRING, "     THIS IS A TEST      ", " ";
    CPYBLAP     THE-RESULT, " ", " ";
    CPYNV       NBR, 100000;
AGAIN:
    TRIML       END,   THE-STRING, " ";
    VERIFY      START, THE-STRING, " ";
    SUBN        SIZE, END, START;
    ADDN(S)     SIZE, 1;
    XLATE       THE-RESULT(START:SIZE),THE-STRING(START:SIZE)," ","_";
    SUBN(SB)    NBR, 1/POS(AGAIN);

    RTX      *;

one little complication (that you are allowed to ignore too) is
if the string is empty, then the above code fails, but let's
change the specs to say that you only invoke the code if
you know that the string is not empty.




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