RE: Data manipulation

["Bob Cozzi \(RPGIV\)" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Like most user-requirements, the original poster of this note, didn't
give specifics, just a generalized statement. I doubt however, that
people actually enter the state as the full word since most people have
trouble spelling the appreciations let alone the full state names.
I'm not sure if CHECKR is what you'd want either, since it would
eliminate Canadian postal codes which include alpha characters as well
as numbers, and usually a space. In this case, what we really need is
the SCANR (scan reverse) which was supposed to be in the first release
of RPG IV, but didn't make the cut, and we're still waiting on it. But
thank goodness we have two ways to do the CHECKR operation (CHECKR and
%CHECKR).  <g>

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Mackie, Roger L. (Precision Press)
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:19 AM
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Data manipulation
>
> 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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