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  3. November 2009

Re: Copy variable to PF

Hi, David:

The SCAN opcode, or even better, the $scan BIF, can return an array of every position where the search argument was found. So, you can "scan" for the ";" and get an array of integers containing the positions of each ";". Then it is an easy matter to loop through this array, and dsubstring the results to where ever your program wants them.

Mark S. Waterbury

> David FOXWELL wrote:
Hi,

A coworker asks :

For a neat way to do this :
Copier the variable MyVar= 'Abcd;cdef;ghijk;12345678aa;'

To a physical file so :
FIELD1 FIELD2 FIELD3 FIELD4
Abcd cdef ghijk 12345678aa

There are a fixed number of fields, but with varying lengths separated by semi-colons.

Thanks.

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