Re: process a list of files

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>From: "Ray, Adam" <ARay@WIPFLI.com>
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:29:54 -0600
>
>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.

Adam, there's an entry in the FAQ that has a program that does
something similar to what you need.  It checks for bad decimal data
in zoned fields; it would be easy to modify it to check for '*' in
character fields, and possibly change them.  (Currently it just prints
a report with the rrn and field name.)

http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/51.html

Barbara Morris