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Re: find syntax for pf’s

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:30 AM Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Although this is very useful, I think the original poster is looking for
contents of the columns, not just column names.

Have I missed something?

Niels did say you could use regular expressions and SQL to search
*any* library/file/field (or schema/table/column). I think his example
was chosen to do double duty:

1. Shows how to use regular expression search *in general* (because
you could substitute any schema in place of QSYS2, any table in place
of SYSCOLUMNS, and any column in place of COLUMN_NAME).

2. Reminds us that we can get a lot of information from SYSCOLUMNS
(and the system catalog in general), which could help us if we are
trying to search for something and we either don't know the names of
the columns (or whatever) beforehand, or we have a lot to search (so
we can use the catalog info to help us build a script for the task).

John Y.

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