RE: process a list of files

Not sure exactly what you are wanting to do with it but I tried using PDM's
option 25=Find string on a database file and it works by displaying the data
in the file containing the * with the found data highlighted.  You can then
press F16 to "find" other occurrences in the file which will also be
highlighted.

Selecting option 25 and then pressing F13 while displaying only files would
at a minimum give you the files that contain the * data.

If you're thinking many of the files have the * this may not help at all.
More details on what you're planning on doing when you find the data would
help.

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray, Adam [mailto:ARay@WIPFLI.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 10:30 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: process a list of files


I've been stumbling over this for weeks and have decided to contact the
experts.
I have a long list of files (over 500) that I need to process. I need to
search every character field in every file for the '*' character. I would
like to have one RPG program that will scan the records of the files for the
character. But since nearly every file has a different layout, I have no
idea how to accomplish this. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam Ray
Programmer/Analyst
Wipfli Ullrich Bertelson LLP
www.wipfli.com <http://www.wipfli.com>


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