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

G
Hello Dave,

I've only done this stuff from Java however you may find the following 
information 
useful.

\n is NOT a Carriage Return, it is a New Line or Line Feed.  Carriage Return is 
\r.  Some 
languages treat them synonomously (or treat \n like \r\n) but they are 
different.  If you 
debug the data received you should find that it is actually separated by both 
Carriage 
Return and Line Feed (i.e., \r\n).

Also x'15' is not what you should be searching for (x'15' is the DBCS Shift In 
character).  Octal 15 is a Carriage Return but that is x'0D', Line Feed is x'25 
in EBCDIC 
and x'0A' in ASCII.  Since the data sent from a browser is ASCII you probably 
should be 
searching for the ASCII code-points.

As I said earlier, debug the data received by your comment parser and see what 
is 
actually in the data stream.  I think most of your trouble is because you are 
not 
searching for the correct delimiter.  Search for \r (x'OD') and add 2 to get 
the start of 
the next comment.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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//--- forwarded letter -------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 09:26:52 -0400
> From: dmosley@dancik.com
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Reply-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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