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Re: Source Compare that can ignore col 1 - 5

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jeff Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is anyone aware of a source compare utility that can ignore columns 1 - 5
of the
record and compare the rest?


Check out STMTFILE parameter of CMPPFM. For example, these statements
compare columns 7 - 80 and ignore comments and lines with blanks in columns
6 and 7 (blank lines for, fixed-format anyway) ...


CMPCOLM 7:80
omtline '*',7
omtline ' ',6


Here's a link to a book that documents use of process statements:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/books/c0917720.pdf




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