Re: Using Hex in Qshell script

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Scott Klement wrote:
<What are you going to do with the resulting data?   Presumably, process
<it with a program that you're writing?   Why not just read the stream
<file directly in that program, and deal with the tilde's as record
<delimiters?

This data is being copied from the IFS with the  CPYFRMIMPF command into a
database file and is being processed by an RPG program.
I only recently became aware that you could process an IFS file from within
RPG.
If you could provide me with or point me to an example that would be great!

In my first post I wrote : Question 2: Can I use CL variables for STDIN and
STOUT?

Scott Klement wrote:

<I don't understand what you mean by that.

<If you mean you want to use variables for "infile" and "outfile",
<you can use variables and just concatenate them to make the string before
<you send it to Qshell... similar to the way I did the &LF, above.
<
<If you mean you want to store the data that will be read on sed's stdin
<in a variable, and put the stdout that it sends back into another
<variable, then...  well, I guess it's possible, but not really practical.
<
<At that point, it would be easier to just process the file in your RPGIV
<or C or whatever language program in the first place.

I'm sorry I wasn't very clear on that. Your example is exactly what I
needed.

Thank you for you help!

Karl Keller
Information Systems
Girling Health Care, Inc.

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