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Re: Web apps on the AS/400

  • Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:07:03 -0600
 
does it work?
it doesn't look quite right. You have to trim
from both the left and the right...

----- Original Message -----
From: Schenck, Don <Don.Schenck@pfizer.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:53 AM
Subject: RE: Web apps on the AS/400


> One line of VB code:
>
>    TheAnswer = Replace(Text1.Text, Trim(Text1.Text),
> Replace(Trim(Text1.Text), " ", "_"))
>
>
>
> Sheesh ... THAT was EASY!
>
> -- Don Schenck
>
>    Schenck Technical Consulting
>    DonS@SchenckTech.com / www.SchenckTech.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
> > Sent: March 19, 2001 9:16 AM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400
> >
> >
> > maybe RPG isn't so bad after all  :-)
> > Here is another string problem:
> >
> > Given a string char(50), replace all
> > EMBEDDED spaces with hyphens,
> > but leave leading and trailing spaces alone.
> > E.g. "     this is a test      "
> > should become   "     this_is_a_test      "
> > :
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Ken.Slaugh@cm-inc.com>
> > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 11:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Lief
> > >
> > > I ran this and debug showed that the execution took 1.266
> > seconds on our
> > > model 170. Actually I was rather surprised, I thought the
> > 1.3 seconds you
> > > reported was rather impressive and didn't think RPG would
> > fair so well.
> > >
> > > d TheString       s             50
> > > d TheShorter      s             50    inz('TEST STRING')
> > > d Nbr             s              6s 0
> > >
> > > d #Now            s               z
> > > d #Then           s               z
> > >
> > > c                   time                    #Then
> > >
> > > c                   do        100000        Nbr
> > > c                   evalr     TheString = %trim(TheShorter)
> > > c                   enddo
> > >
> > > c                   time                    #Now
> > > c     #Now          subdur    #Then         ##Sec:*MS        15 0
> > > c                   return
> > >
> > > ##SEC = 000000001266000
> > >
> > > Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
> > > Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
> > > AS/400 Professional Administrator/MSE
> > > Client Access Specialist
> > > http://www.cm-inc.com/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >                     "Leif Svalgaard"
> > >                     <leif@leif.org>            To:
> > <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > >                     Sent by:                   cc:
> > >                     owner-midrange-l@mi        Subject:
> > Re: Web apps on
> > the AS/400
> > >                     drange.com
> > >
> > >
> > >                     03/18/01 09:23 PM
> > >                     Please respond to
> > >                     MIDRANGE-L
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > try it
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <Ken.Slaugh@cm-inc.com>
> > > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 10:25 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Web apps on the AS/400
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Leif
> > > >
> > > >      Any idea how much slower this would be in RPG?
> > > >
> > > > d TheString       s             50
> > > > d TheShorter      s             50    inz('TEST STRING')
> > > > d Nbr             s              6s 0
> > > >
> > > > c                   do        100000        Nbr
> > > > c                   evalr     TheString = %trim(TheShorter)
> > > > c                   enddo
> > > >
> > > > c                   return
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
> > > > Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
> > > > AS/400 Professional Administrator/MSE
> > > > Client Access Specialist
> > > > http://www.cm-inc.com/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >                     "Leif Svalgaard"
> > > >                     <leif@leif.org>            To:
> > > <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > > >                     Sent by:                   cc:
> > > >                     owner-midrange-l@mi        Subject:
> >   Re: Web apps
> > > on
> > > the AS/400
> > > >                     drange.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >                     03/18/01 06:20 PM
> > > >                     Please respond to
> > > >                     MIDRANGE-L
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
> > > > > From: Nathan M. Andelin <nathanma@haaga.com>
> > > > > > >Java is better for vector and string manipulation than RPG...
> > > > > > I don't disagree with the above statement.  It's just
> > that it's
> > > ealily
> > > > > > remedied
> > > > >
> > > > > These blanket statements are hard to accept at face value.
> > > > > The only way to verify this is to solve the same string problem
> > > > > in different languages and them to time the following things:
> > > > > 1) how long did it take to solve the problem
> > > > > 2) how fast does it run. (do it 100,000 times)
> > > > >
> > > > > So here is a sample problem:
> > > > >
> > > > > Given a string of length 50, move a shorter string to it,
> > > > > e.g. "test string", finally right-justify the string, so that it
> > > > > now holds:
> > > > > "                                       test string"
> > > > > The shorter string is not known at compile time.
> > > > >
> > > > > Once we have a solution to that in several languages
> > > > > we can make meaningful comparisons. If the language
> > > > > or a subroutine library already has a function that solves
> > > > > the problem, you are not allowed to use it.
> > > > > This later restriction is somewhat dubious: imagine
> > > > > you had a language that had a built-in solution to
> > > > > every problem your are likely to encounter, it is
> > > > > hard to disqualify using it.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here is one solution (in MI on a 150 box):
> > > > time to write: 4 min
> > > > time to run 100,000 times through the loop: 1.3 secs
> > > > code:
> > > > DCL DD THE-STRING  CHAR(50);
> > > > DCL DD THE-SHORTER CHAR(50);
> > > > DCL DD SIZE  BIN(2);
> > > > DCL DD START BIN(2);
> > > > DCL DD NBR   BIN(4);
> > > >     CPYBLAP     THE-SHORTER, "TEST STRING", " ";
> > > >     CPYNV       NBR, 100000;
> > > > AGAIN:
> > > >     TRIML       SIZE,  THE-SHORTER, " ";
> > > >     CMPNV(B)    SIZE,  0/HI(=+2);
> > > >     CPYNV       SIZE,  50;:
> > > >     SUBN        START, 51, SIZE;
> > > >     CPYBRAP     THE-STRING (START:SIZE), THE-SHORTER, " ";
> > > >     SUBN(SB)    NBR, 1/POS(AGAIN);
> > > >
> > > >     RTX      *;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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