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Re: How to get the dollar value from this text string?

I couldn't agree more! If the average RPGer can't understand a relatively simple REGEX then maybe it's time to learn some new skills? Imagine visiting a doctor who qualified 30 years ago and never read another medical journal in their life! I realise you're not in this category Jon, but I don't understand why in so many IBM i places you're expected to code to lowest common denominator, who typically can't be bothered to keep their skills up to date.

Tim.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Birgitta Hauser <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 31 July 2020 19:03
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: How to get the dollar value from this text string?

Still a lot less intuitive for the average RPGer that a %ScanR and %Subst though.
Old school RPGer, young programmers (independent of whether they are RPGer or not) all know SQL and Regular Expressions 😉

Also: LOCATE_IN_STRING is the equivalent of %SCAN/%SCANR
Also the equivalent for %Trim is TRIM, the equivalent for %TrimR is RTRIM and for %TrimL is LTRIM.
And the equvalent for %Subst is SUBSTR.
... and RPG does not support Regular Expressions (directly).
So where is your problem?

Is this easier to read?
NumValue = %Dec(%TrimR(%Subst(CharValue, %ScanR(CharValue, '/') + 1), ' ~'), 11, 0);

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser


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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Freitag, 31. Juli 2020 16:25
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to get the dollar value from this text string?

Still a lot less intuitive for the average RPGer that a %ScanR and %Subst though.


On Jul 31, 2020, at 3:54 AM, Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Agreed Jon, I think I will challenge Birgita on that one:

Here i my one-liner solution: Remove any characters until the last
blank, Picup the number and remove the filal ~

**free

dcl-s instr varchar(256);

dcl-s dolar packed( 15: 2);



inStr = 'NTE*OTH*#OH- HANDLING CHARGES GSYE9R03/WHT/ / 4T/-
2.29~';

exec sql values rtrim(regexp_replace (:instr, '.* '),'~')
into :dolar;


return;




On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:33 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OMG that is UGLY!


On Jul 30, 2020, at 1:56 AM, Birgitta Hauser
<Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The following SQL-Statement should return the numbers only:
Select Dec(RegexP_Replace(Substr(Text,Locate_In_String(Text, '/',
-1) +
1),
'[\s^~]', ''), 11, 2),
Text
from
(Values('NTE*OTH*#F7- PST/SALES TAX GAZE9H01/MNT/ / 6/- 1,23~'),
('NTE*OTH*#F7- PST/SALES TAX GSYE9R03/WHT/ / 4T/- 1,22~'),
('NTE*OTH*#OH- HANDLING CHARGES GAZE9H01/MNT/ / 6/- 3,36~'),
('NTE*OTH*#OH- HANDLING CHARGES GSYE9R03/WHT/ / 4T/- 2,29~')) x
(Text);

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser


"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
(Les
Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not
training
them
and keeping them!"
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so
they
don't want to.“ (Richard Branson)


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of
Kevin
Bucknum
Sent: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2020 20:04
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How to get the dollar value from this text string?

If you do have regex setup and working from sql on your box, then
this little quick and dirty program extracts everything after the last space.
That includes that ~ but you can remove that.

**Free
Dcl-s V1 Char(100);
Dcl-s Result Char(10);
V1 = 'NTE*OTH*#OH- HANDLING CHARGES GAZE9H01/MNT/ / 6/- 3.36~';

Exec Sql Select Regexp_Substr(
Trim(:V1),
'[\S]+$')
Into :Result
From sysibm.sysdummy1;

Dsply Result;
*Inlr = *On;
Return;


On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 11:48 -0600, Jack Woehr wrote:

the regex for that is something like


.*(\d*\.\d\d).*


when $1 will be your dollar figure.


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