Re: CCSID of QSHELL generated file not getting set

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Vern!


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On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 2:42 PM Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> H Brad
>
> Here's the thing I did to get UTF-8 output in QShell, which doesn't
> natively do that - this is in a RPGLE program where I have to modify a
> value in an XML file (for and XLSX file) that I don't know until I've
> finished processing all the rows.
>
> sedCmd = 'QSH CMD(+
>                      ''export QIBM_CCSID=1208 +
>                        && sed "' + %char(pLineFrom) + ',' +
>                                    %char(pLineTo) +
>                                ' s/' + pSearchFor +
>                                '/' + pReplaceWith + '/';
>
>          if pReplaceAll;
>            sedCmd += 'g';
>          endif;
>
>         sedCmd += '" ' + pFile + ' > /tmp/temp' + jobNbr + '.tmp +
>                       && mv /tmp/temp' + jobNbr + '.tmp ' + pFile + ''')';
>
> The command becomes something like this -
>
> export QIBM_CCSID=1208 && sed "5, 6 s/tagname/realvalue/g" pFile >
> /tmp/temp123456.tmp && mv /tmp/temp123456.tmp pFile
>
> The point here is that the && continuations put everything in the same
> QShell job - I think that mattered when I first found this solution for
> replacing the changes from sed into the from file - Qshell version of
> sed does not have the "replace-in-place" option that other versions of
> sed do - and I don't remember if PASE' version does, or if there were
> other problems I had.