Re: Tilde delimited fields in a PC file - how to upload & convert fields to AS/400 physical file

Hi Terry,

Yes, I have, many years ago, but nothing quite as involved as your example.
There tends to be more RPG work out there than COBOL, so those skills are
pretty rusty, not to mention that "table" has a whole different meaning
after using RPG for so long.

But the problem presented on this list seemed like a perfect example of what
UNSTRING was made to do, and a lot more understandable (if lengthier) than
the PERL example. Your example would do nicely parsing a BASIC sequential
file (aka CSV - comma separated values), especially the variety created by
MS Excel.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

From: Terry Grider <tgrider@arkansas.net>
>   Have you ever tried using UNSTRING with a table as your target?
Following is
> an example and it also demonstrates how to use a variable delimiter as you
> proceed through the string so that either spaces or quotes could be used
> interchangeably.



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