Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files

Pat

If it can do that, that's cool. But the documentation seems to lean toward scanning a string - here is a line from the docs -


"The application program reads the database, calling the QCLSCAN API at least once for each record to test for the pattern."


Regards
Vern

-------------- Original message --------------
From: Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'll have to go back and find the clp examples of how to use QCLSCAN. I
recall
writing clp code years ago to search through file(s) with no problem at all.

After all, it would not be much of an API if you couldn't point to a file.

dsppfm and F16 certainly will find a string in a file but is limited to
a single
file. The qclscan and clp could easily handle many files.

I would think sql is a better/quicker choice for what he wants.

The need to scan "many" files is a little unique and I would think
rarely used. Scans are mostly debugging tools for the most part.


vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Pat

You can't give this API a file name that I know of - Dave is looking for

something to search physical files from a list like one of the PDM things or
form WRKF - which has none of this, either.

QCLSCAN is, however, wonderful for searching in variables - and could be used

to write a search app for files, it seems.

Regards
Vern

-------------- Original message --------------
From: Pat Barber

From a programming standpoint, here is another way,
which has been around since the beginning.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/apis/qc

ls

can.htm

CRPence wrote:

Shannon ODonnell wrote:

Does anyone know of a utility that will allow you to do a generic
search of OS/400 one or more physical files (singly or all at once)
for records containing a particular character string?

I'm thinking of something like the Windows Search function which
allows you to search for files containing a string within them.

I wonder if one of the unix-type commands I could run in Qshell would
have something that would work.