Re: Is there an alternative to FNDSTRPDM?

Hi Barbara

Just jumping in here - seems I remember that FNDSTRPPDM does not take fields into account when run against a non-source physical file - hope this has not been said already - have been asleep!

This has been a good tool for me when looking in a library for where some value appears - anywhere - in a PF. But I've always assumed I COULD get false positives.

Vern

At 09:17 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote:

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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