Re: Formatting Data in RPG 4

["Justin Kiteley" <justin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,Jim and all,

Thanks for the ideas.  The problem I am having is that the input data is
anywhere from 1 to 80 char long, almost always varying in size with spaces
in the data that need to be retained.

Example:  lets say the max length was 20 and i was trying to wrap data to a
larger field, removing unwanted trailing spaces. cap X's represent necessary
spaces small x's unnecessary spaces.  Sorry if it's confusing, I couldn't
think of any other way to explaing it!

Before

record 1  - TestingX12xxxxxxxxxx
record 2  - TestX12XXTestXXXXTst
record 3  - TstX1X23xxxxxxxxxxxx

After (what I am having trouble achieving)

record 1 - TestingX12TestX12XXTestX
record 2 - XXXTstTstX1X23xxxxxxxxx

  I was just wondering if there was an easier (more efficient, less code)
way to do it.  Rather than the circuitous code I have right now.  I suppose
the only answer to the spaces problem is to use checkr to find farthest
right position of data in the field to be wrapped then parse out the data
character by character into the new 80 field using arrays, keeping track of
where you are by counters, and then reading the next record when 80 is
reached.  I'm going to try to adapt Peter's code first and try it out, but
I'm not sure how it will handle the spaces.  I also don't know how much data
will be in the file, so I guess I have to define the "largefield" as large
as possible?  If anybody else has ideas on this don't be shy.  I'll post my
code once I get it working properly if anybody wants to see it.    Again,
thanks for the input!


Justin Kiteley



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