Does anybody have any experience using SCANWC in MI? Looking to find the first character *not* matching a specific value. -- C400-L

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Subject: Does anybody have any experience using SCANWC in MI? Looking to find the first character *not* matching a specific value.
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:56:51 -0700
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I'm looking to scan a string of characters, and find the first one that's *not* an EBCDIC '0' (x'F0'), and from the looks of it, SCANWC could do it in one MI instruction . . . if I had more than a vague idea how to use it.

Anybody know of an example, in MI?

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Re: Does anybody have any experience using SCANWC in MI? Looking to find the first character *not* matching a specific value. , Mark Waterbury

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