scan to separate path & file -- RPG400-L

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Subject: scan to separate path & file
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:15:29 -0500
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Methinks there is a better way than what I am doing.

I have a string like "home/One/Two/sample.txt" and want to separate it as two strings: "home/One/Two/" and "sample.txt". I will be doing this in an .sqlrpgle program.

Suggestions on approach to this?

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