Re: RPG Field Scan

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:21 AM 3/11/98 -0600, Scott Swaim wrote: 
>
> I would like to be able to scan a field in a RPG program for a certain
> character.  If that character exist, I would like to take that field and
> convert it all to uppercase to be chained to another file.
>  
> e.g.
>  
>   Catalog Number:  gfn 3_______________
>   Catalog Number:  ?drills_______________
>  
>  
> If this field starts with a '?' I want to make the field Uppercase and then
> chain it to a different file.  This will be used to signify KEYWORDS within
> the field without defining a new field. What API's are available to make this
> happen.  and also what are the parm to pass to these API's?


Scott,

The functionality you need is provided by RPG. You can use SCAN (%SST if it's
really always the first character) to find the question mark, and XLATE to
translate lower to upper.

hth
Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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