RE: Removing punctuation (not using arrays)

Thank you all for your input.  Some of the replies I knew about and some of 
them are pleasant surprises!

Regards,

Tracy L. Ball
Total Response, Inc.
Sr. Programmer/Analyst 
(317) 781-4600 ext. 3107



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cozzi [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:52 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Removing punctuation (not using arrays)


Tracy,

If you have the RPG ToolKit for OS/400 you can do it in two lines of
code.
If you don't you can get the FindReplace procedure, out of my article on
this topic at
http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?1@46.DRG8acAs5B1.104752@.6ae52ffe

If you don't have the toolkit or the FindReplace procedure, you can
still do what you want in just 4 lines of code:

Here's some example D specs for the data...


     D input           S             30A   Inz('RABBIT PACK, 6PC. WINE
TOOLKIT')
     D nPos            S             10I 0


First get rid of the garbage and replace them with blanks.

     C     ',.':'  '     xlate     input         input

Now get rid of the duplicate blanks..
     C                   eval      input = FindReplace('  ':' ':Input)


In otherwords:

     C     ',.':'  '     xlate     input         input
     C                   eval      input = FindReplace('  ':' ':Input)



If you need to do it with raw RPG IV, its almost as easy.
Just replace the FindReplace line with the following:

     C                   eval      nPos = %scan('  ':Input:nPos)
     C                   dow       nPos > 0 
     C                   eval      input = %Replace(' ':Input:nPos:2)
     C                   eval      nPos = %scan('  ':Input:nPos)
     C                   enddo


Bob Cozzi

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