Re: Copy variable to PF

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, David:

The SCAN opcode, or even better, the $scan BIF, can return an array of 
every position where the search argument was found. So, you can "scan" 
for the ";" and get an array of integers containing the positions of 
each ";".  Then it is an easy matter to loop through this array, and 
dsubstring the results to where ever your program wants them.

Mark S. Waterbury

> David FOXWELL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A coworker asks :
>
> For a neat way to do this : 
>
> Copier the variable MyVar= 'Abcd;cdef;ghijk;12345678aa;'
>
> To a physical file so :
>  
> FIELD1   FIELD2   FIELD3   FIELD4
> Abcd     cdef     ghijk    12345678aa
>
> There are a fixed number of fields, but with varying lengths separated by semi-colons.
>
> Thanks.
>