RE: process a list of files

Hmm...

If you have an RPG program that reads a generic internally described file
with a record length great enough to accommodate any of the record lengths
you need to read, you can have a cl driver that loops through the list of
files and does an override for each one and calls the RPG.  You can either
do a dspffd to an outfile or use the api whose name I forget to find the
names of the character fields and their lengths and offsets in the record.
You should then be able to scan each character field.

If you're going to be sending ascii text files, cpytoimpf to a tab delimited
file gets around most of the embedded delimiter problems.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray, Adam [mailto:ARay@WIPFLI.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:10 AM
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: process a list of files
>
>
> What gets done with the *'s once they are found has yet to be
> decided. The
> reason I need to find them all is because the * (or any
> special character)
> can be used as a delimiter when sending files electronically.
> Any field
> containing an * will cause whatever program is processing the
> data to think
> it's the end of a field when it really isn't. Using a
> different delimiter
> has been discussed, but whatever we decide to use, we have to
> scan for that
> character in all our files.
> Keep the ideas coming. I'm willing to try just about anything.
> -Adam
>