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  3. February 2010

Re: Replace 1 Char with 3Char's

Vern Hamberg wrote:
<<SNIP>>

If you CAN deal with a full variable and writing it back out to a
different stream file, I like using the SQL replace function -
that replaces all instances of the search string with the
replacement value - very cool. Just use a SET statement.

RPG's replace() can do the job, so long as you do it in a loop
that uses somewhere around the last found position as the start
from value in a loop. SQL is so much easier!!


Of course each implementation will have potential difficulties. Just be sure to [know how to] deal with the potential or actual truncation [sqlwarn ??] issue due to expansion of the data in a column or variable. :-)

Regards, Chuck

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