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since no one else has posted a rpg solution.... rpg update of every record in file exuse the psuedo code & indicators scan for dash '-' z-add 1 x = '-' scan text:x pos1 20 20 eval x = pos + 1 ** scan for next dash in same line 20 '-' scan text:x pos2 20 20 pos2 sub pos1 diff ** xxx-xxx-xxx - dashes 4 bytes apart 20 diff ifeq 4 ** get start of number pos1 sub 3 start eval %subst(text:start:12) = '945-111-2222' update endif jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 2:15 PM Subject: RE: Replacing characters > > At 11:24 AM 3/12/2004 -0500, Mark Allen wrote: > > > >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 numbersstart 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. > > > From: Vern Hamberg > > > Another idea is grep, in QShell. > > > Try sed rather than grep. > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >
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