RE: process a list of files

Adam,

You can open a file as internally defined and just give it an
arbitrarily large record length.  You could read this in to one big
field and scan that if you didn't need to know what field had the
asterisk in.  If you need the field name, then the APIs or a DSPFFD will
give start positions and lengths you could lookup.  What do you need to
do once you find an asterisk?

To read a file of unknown DDS try:

     FBIGFILE IF  F    9999            DISK
      *
     E                    B        9999  1
     IBIGFILE NS  61
     I                                        19999 B

It's RPGIII but you get the idea.

Cheers
Robin

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Ray, Adam
> Sent: 08 November 2001 15:30
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: process a list of files
>
>
> I've been stumbling over this for weeks and have decided to
> contact the experts. I have a long list of files (over 500)
> that I need to process. I need to search every character
> field in every file for the '*' character. I would like to
> have one RPG program that will scan the records of the files
> for the character. But since nearly every file has a
> different layout, I have no idea how to accomplish this. Any
> ideas are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam Ray
> Programmer/Analyst
> Wipfli Ullrich Bertelson LLP
> www.wipfli.com <http://www.wipfli.com>
>
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