RE: Unix API read()

[Anton Gombkötö <gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:57 28.12.00 -0700, you wrote:
>I think that strtok wants a delimiter list containing blank, comma,
>parenthesis, and so forth.  Parsing a database record where a character
>column might contain any or all of those delimiters or no delimiters at all
>might be unreliable.

Yep.

But i think his problem is the %TRIM. See Scott Klement's post from Dec 
26th, 15:57 (-06:00 from UTC).

So he should be happy with strtok and the CRLF delimiter for the records.

The described technique is quite interesting, although i'd change the 
parameters for the functions. (e.g. EVAL numvalue1 = 
GetIntField(PtrInputBuffer), just personal taste.) I do not see the reason 
for the length; a really smart "field sniffer" should handle data like

4711 My wonderful article .35
4712 The ugly one 1,234.56

as well. But that is a lot of work, and that only for a poor input file 
layout? One should have very good arguments to convince me....

Hopefully XML makes this all a lot easier. (But i cannot see a clear path 
for the "native" AS/400 programmer to XML. Everything seems to be based on 
Java.)

Richard, what i do not understand is your mail with "Perhaps one of the 
rocket scientists knows, I don't know." as an answer on his question on how 
to use the function. That was when i played the RPG-sorcerer card...



Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Anton Gombkötö

Avenum Technologie GmbH
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Lest das Redbook / read the redbook "Who knew you could do that with RPG?":
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245402.html

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