Re: Scan and Replace

Hi Kari

For starters, you need the name of the variable as a parameter to %replace.

BTW, I think %replace does only one instance of the search string at a time. You'd need a loop. I'm going from bery vad memory (can't even spell) at the moment, so you'd do well to check the docs.

There's a new BIF that does scan/replace at one time - again, not sure if it's the first one it finds or all.

The alignment of your second line is off - EVAL needs to be directly under SCAN --> I assume some email formatting ugliness.

With free-form, hey, it'd be no problem!!

HTH
Vern

On 10/2/2013 12:21 PM, Kari Zeglin wrote:

I am trying to understand scan and replace. I am looking at a string which is found during my scanning of SRCDTA of a source file. I am trying to find the spaces ' ' and replace them with no spaces ''. The HP code that I am converting allowed both in a case of COPY EQUIPMNT, EQIPX for example. The variables are different depending on which HP programs are being looked at. I am wanting to find those spaces and turn the code into something like this: COPYEQUIPMNT,EQIPX so that it will be consistant when writing the AS400 equivilent.

I am working in RPGLE and do have the SRCDTA of that line into SUBDTA. I cannot figure out the copy and replace from there. Please help me, I know the COPY line is for sure wrong but I am at a loss on how to fix it and get the correct line generated..

C ' ' SCAN SUBDTA
C EVAL SUBDTA=%REPLACE(' ':'')