RE: Scanning a STMF for a string

Maybe this would work for returning the value?

system "chgdtaara qgpl/xxx value('$STR')"

The fun with quotes continues. I am not sure if the value 0f STR will be retrieved.

If that does work, you could do it all in one step by doing this:

system "chgdtaara qgpl/xxx value(' ' `sed -n 's/foo="\(.*\)"/\1/p' ` ' ')"

John McKee


-----Original message-----
From: "Dennis Lovelady" iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:09:24 -0500
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Scanning a STMF for a string

So basically you are looking for foo=" and then want to take the next
20
characters that is then followed by " or the Quotes is only there for
the example. It that case you are looking for foo= and want the next
20
characters to then write to a data area. I don't think any generic
string command will do that. You will have to roll your own.

Looking for <string> where line contains foo="<string>"

STR=$(sed -n 's/foo="\(.*\)"/\1/p')

That will put the value in STR within your shell script... but not sure how
you would get it into a data area.


Dennis Lovelady
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