Re: Wild Card Processing

Don,
   
  Thank you so much God bless you and your family members.
  Regards,
  Joe

Don Stafford <don.stafford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  If you move 123456 into your key field, then do a START FILE-NAME KEY NOT < 
KEY-NAME that will position the record pointer to the first record.
As you execute your READ FILE-NAME NEXT RECORD statements, check to see if 
the key field = 123456

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Folorunso" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 9:28 PM
Subject: [COBOL400-L] Wild Card Processing

How do one process wild cards using COBOL/400 for example if I
have a field that partial information is provided and I have to process
all records with same information. For example if the user only 
supplies me with this type of value for this field that contain 20 
characters but only provides me with 6
characters like this 123456* do I use an embedded SQL or make the field a 
partial list of a key in order to process this records. Thanks.

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