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Re: Is there an alternative to FNDSTRPDM?

Scott Klement wrote:

I'd be tempted to write my own, which would be pretty easy to do. In RPG it'd pretty much just be reading the flat record (without splitting it into fields) and running %scan() over it. And do that in a loop. Pretty easy.


If you don't split it into fields, you run the risk of getting false hits if you get a match that spans two fields. You could do the scan and then add a check that the location of the hit was entirely within one fields.

And to nitpick one nit too far, I suppose you should also check that it wasn't within a binary or packed field. 2206311169 = x'8381a301' = 'cat.'



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