Re: Replace 1 Char with 3Char's

The sheer length of this thread reinforces my preexisting prejudice in
favour of "contracting out" any XML parsing to a tool designed for the
job. I wonder, Jim, if producing your desired output from a parsed
representation of the input would be any more work than the effort you
have already spent on adhocery? And then, which strategy would give you
more confidence in the result?

(Yesterday was a holiday in Canada. Feel free to attribute this message
to the moral equivalent of Monday-morning grumpiness :)

Cheers,
Terry.


On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:24 -0600, Lowary, Jim wrote:

Does anyone know of away (other than brute force) to replace one
Character with 3 Characters?

This is an XML file that I am getting via the httpapi via http_url_post
function [Thanks Scott!], in an RPG program. The program I'm trying to
replace is a Delphi program that took a block of data and did a replace
in each block of data with some Delphi function that would replace "<"
with 'CRLF' +"<" so that it could be later copied into a fix length
record format to process on the iSeries. (the xml is all one long
string, yuck!)

Only way I can think of is with two user spaces and using pointers, etc.
I'm so close to shoving one more Delphi program out the door and getting
this entirely a iSeries function. I just had to ask before I beat my
head on a wall coming up with something to do this.

Thanks,
-- Jim Lowary (looking for a soft wall!)