Re: Scan and replace in CL variable

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

When rolling your own, think about whether you want to replace just the
first occurrence or all of them.

Assuming you want what %SCANRPL does in RPG, a simple thing to do is write
a little RPG program that wraps that BIF and is easily callable from CL.

John Y.


On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, 12:33 PM ~TA~ <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I need to remove apostrophes from a CL variable.  The best solution I've
> come up with so far has been to use %SCAN to find the position of the
> apostrophe, use %SUBSTRING to grab everything up until the apostrophe,
> CONCAT that with everything after the apostrophe, and stuff that back
> into the original variable.
> It's clunky but I think it should work.
>
> My question is, am I missing a better solution?
>
> Thanks for any ideas on this.
>
> ~TA~