Re: STFW Replies

Please note that I'm in a shop now that is on v5r1 iSeries but still codes 
like they are on they are on the S/36. My previous contract was the same. 
Two years plus of this list being my only life line(besides the manuals) 
to new things on the iSeries. And yes I do push them to move forward in 
their "coding  know how" and try to squeeze in any new items I can. I hope 
that I did not come across as "the wrong tone into your reply". My response for 
%replace was more for me to see( besides the manuals 
and a quick STRDBG test program I did)  that I understood the newer 
%bif's. That is why I used the %replace not only to give a different way 
of doing it but to look for any responses to see if I "did it right or did 
it wrong". 

Booth and the other regulars on this list are a wonderful learning 
experience for myself and I'm sure others. And if I think I can begin to 
contribute in some way to offer an alternative method of coding something 
I will. But in no way will it ever be with a "tone". :)

Thanks 
Bill Hopkins

 

 




Joe Giusto <jgiusto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Must we start this STFW / RTFM thread again.  Mr. Martin is obviously not 
a
newbie, and as I have seen it has provided useful help on many occasions.
So he needed a reminder on a substring or replace syntax (which, by the 
way,
I used the %replace so infrequently that I have to re-look it up almost
every time I have a need to use it [laugh if you must]).  Would it have 
been
so hard to just give the answer and move on?  Or to just ignore the 
message
if you thought it did not warrant a response in your opinion.  Perhaps 
(and
most probably) I am reading the wrong tone into your reply.  If so, I most
humbly apologize in advance.

OTOH, I saw a number of methods to handle the same task from the replies
that I have read so far so it proved to be a useful question IMHO.


 -----Original Message-----
From:            Shannon O'Donnell [mailto:sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:            Monday, August 18, 2003 1:08 PM
To:              RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject:                 Re: replacing characters using %subst

Booth,

You may want to check the online IBM manuals for questions such as these.
These books are great resources for just this type of question.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzahgrpgcode.htm#rpgi
le



Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:51 AM
Subject: replacing characters using %subst


>
>
>  Another simple question for which I don't know the answer.
>
> Lets say I want to substring characters 3 through 8 from the string
> abcdefghijklmnopqrst and put those characters in position  13 through 18
of
> a field named FIELD2 which is large enough.
>
> C     eval    FIELD2 = ???  what goes here?
>

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