Robert,
In the past, I have kept a *DEC sequence number and converted it to a
character by doing
%SST(&ALPHABET &SEQ 1).
Would that work for you ?
Of course, &ALPHABET would be defined as *CHAR 26
VALUE('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
Peter.
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Munday
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:25 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Incrementing An Alpha Value In CL
Today's task is to increment an alpha value in a CL (A to B to C...).
As some batch files process, I am to save the successfully processed
file members to an archive file and assign a batch ID character on the
end of each unique member name. I have a file identifer + Julian Date +
AlphaSeq, which for today would be `FL07215A`. If I process a second
batch today, it woud be `FL07215B`. I can capture the highest value of
the eighth character in the file member name with RTVMBRD - RtvMbrD
File(FILENAME) Mbr(*Last) RtnMbr(&LASTMEMBER) as the member names would
be in ascending order. I could then bump the character to the next
value and append it to the first seven characters of the member name.
Sure, I could write an RPG program to do this, but there must be a
relatively painless way to do it within a CL. Were it my project, a
numeric sequence would be the most simple to accomplish.
How to proceed?
Thanks,
Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Nashville, TN
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