RE: A little RPG and a little CGI/Net.Data question.

Hi Dave.

Well, I'm not Mr. Net.Data, but I can hold my own with CGI (eRPG).

I have a similar application, only I use this text to display again on the
web, so I don't worry about splitting up the data.  I simply store the data
in a variable length text field, and display it again and it will be
formatted exactly as entered when re-displayed on the web page.  (It's a
forum application).

If you are saying that there are no control characters in your string, then
it will be up to you to break these up any way you want.  Just as if someone
entered the long string in on a DDS screen.

You no doubt will not see the eol characters unless the user hits enter
while entering the text.  Rows on a text area cannot be seperated into
"rows" very easily.  That's HTML's fault, not Net.Data or RPG's.  To HTML,
it is one long string, not a set of rows and columns.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help...

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dmosley@dancik.com [mailto:dmosley@dancik.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 8:27 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Cc: terry@dancik.com
> Subject: A little RPG and a little CGI/Net.Data question.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alright Mr. Stone, let's see you shine.
> 
> Here's my situation.  I am creating a <TEXTAREA COLS=50 
> ROWS=10>, in HTML
> obviously,  to allow users to enter comments in.  Once the 
> user has submitted
> his/her entree, and continues to the next URL, which is 
> accessed via Net.Data, I
> do a @DTW_directcall function that passes the users comments 
> and the comments
> length to an RPGLE program, using simple parameter pass.  The 
> program  should
> read the comments entered and break them down and written to 
> a physical file.
> The file layout is as such.  SEQ#- 3,0 & TEXT - 50a.  The 
> comments should be
> broken  so that each row entered would be considered a SEQ# 
> increment.  My
> problem is breaking down the comments, once it is passed to 
> the RPGLE program.
> I created a procedure that I thought would break it down 
> properly, BUT, the
> comments value being passed to the program does not appear to 
> have Carriage
> Returns (\n)(x'15'), so I can't figure out were to %subst the 
> comments to a new
> record.
> 
> 
> Ex) TEXTAREA :                                PHYSICAL FILE 
> RECORDS (What
> records should be written)
>             COMMENTS                               SEQ#      TEXT
>      ROW 1 :  This is were the comments would go.            
> 1    This is were
> the comments would go
>      ROW 2 :
>      ROW 3 : This would be considered SEQ# 3.                
> 3    This would be
> considered SEQ# 3.
>      ROW 4:
>      ROW 5: And this would be considered SEQ# 5.             
> 5    And this would
> be considered SEQ# 5.
> 
> 
> I hope that this explained it well enough for you all.  Any 
> suggestions would be
> greatful.
> thanks
> dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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