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In iACS:

create variable jwoehr.FOO varchar(20); -- there is a schema JWOEHR on my
IBM i
set jwoehr.FOO = REGEXP_REPLACE ( 'meatballs', 'a.*l', 'ow'); -- replace
starting at first 'a' any chars or spaces up to last 'l'
values jwoehr.foo; -- show me!

*shows below in the output:*

00001
meows

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 10:21 AM Jack Prucha <Jack.Prucha@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a requirement to change some character fields in a file. Leave the
first and last character as is and replace all the between characters with
a fill character such as an asterisk.

For example:

'Jack' = 'J**K'
'iSeries = 'i*****s'

I'm testing SQL statements with hard-coded strings. I thought I had a
solution with TRANSLATE because it has a fill character parameter but it
wants to translate the 1st and last characters if they happen to match one
of the between characters. I don't know where to begin with perhaps
REGEXP_REPLACE. I'm back at square one now and don't see any
straightforward SQL methods to do this. I know this can be done with RPG
but hoping to do this without 'code'.

TIA
Jack



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