RE: Data manipulation

["Mackie, Roger L. (Precision Press)" <RLMackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob's suggestion might not work well for North Carolina, New York, etc. You
might try the CHECKR Opcode (or %CHECKR function if you have V5R1). You
would need to invoke it twice, once from the end of the field and then from
the first non-blank position the first CHECKR found.

As previous posters have pointed out, if the zip code is in the last
position, or abuts the state without a blank, the logic gets much more
complicated.

Roger Mackie

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:42 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Data manipulation

...
Then, Scan for a blank, like this:
 Eval   pos = %Scan(' ' : StZip)
If   Pos > 0
Eval   state = %Subst(stzip:1:pos-1);
Eval   zip = %subst(stZip: pos + 1)
Eval   zip = %Trim(zip)
Endif
...
> >
> > Does anyone have a slick way of extracting the postal code?
> >
> > The postal code could be US or Canadian.....

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