Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data

David

To put it in a metaphor "no human being can view a 360 degree horizon at
the same
time" you need a mechanism to turn around - the same goes for a RPGLE
program
that can handle terespaces but only can see 64K at the time.

Scan/replace gets more complicated when you at the same time as scanning
what's
in view has to move the binocular directed to the horizon as you proceed.

But it isn't impossible



On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:24 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/30/2011 12:15 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

The C APIs are actually pretty easy to use,

They don't look too difficult ... it's just the replacement of all those
bif's that's kind of daunting.

but as Henrik says, you can use plain ole' RPG to do much of what
you want.

To a certain extent, yes ... but when the text size gets beyond 64k, will
they still work?

I have a bunch of RPG procedures to do memory
scanning/replacing/trimming etc. Want them?

Sure ... if you could post them to http://code.midrange.com, that would
be great.

david

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