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On Friday 12 March 2004 Mark Allen wrote: > I've got a physical file (actually copy of a spool file) containing > phone #'s in format xxx-xxx-xxxx. I need to send this to a software > vendor but for privacy reasons I need to change all the phone #'s to > "fictitous" numbers i.e. change 706-678-9565 to 945-224-4848 or such. > The phone numbers start in a various # of places in the file (i.e. > some might start in position 33 others 55, 87 etc.) I've been racking > my brain for a quick and dirty way to this without having to manually > edit the file. Any ideas from some of you genius' out there? Hi Mark Quite a few years back we needed to pick out UK postcodes to put into a dedicated postcode field. They could appear in any one of four lines of address, or not at all. I resorted to simplifying the patterns to search for. Used xlate on each line to convert all alphas to A and all digits to 1, so there was just a fixed set of patterns to search for (AA1 1AA, AA11 1AA, etc). Extracting the postcode from the original (un-xlate'd) field using the pattern start position was straightforward then. You could try a similar approach looking for 111-111-1111, which should be a lot easier with RPGIV (for example) than it was with RPG/400! Regards, Martin -- martin@xxxxxxxxxx AIM/Gaim: DBG400dotNet http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - AS/400 & iSeries Open Source/Free Software utilities \ / Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news X / \
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