Re: string compares with 'wildcards' in rpgiv

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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what am I missing?  Why wouldn't the %Scan BIF work?  {Left if Position =1}
{Middle if Position > 1 And  Position < (%len -start)} Else  {right }



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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Friday, October 04, 2002 04:14:54 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: string compares with 'wildcards' in rpgiv

You can do this, and much, much more, with regular expressions. The
ILE C library has functions called "regcomp", "regexec", "regfree"
for doing this sort of thing.

I posted a sample a while back, you can find it in the archives here:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200105/msg00106.html


On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Richard B Baird wrote:

> hey all,

>

> i've searched the archives to no avail, and started to write this myself,

> but i'm struggling and it's starting to get out of hand... does anyone

> have something similar to this in their toolbox, or know of an existing
api
> or c routine to do this?

>

> i need an elegant way of comparing one string that could have a wild card

> or two, to another string.

>

> for instance the first string could have:

> 1. *Monthly or

> 2. Monthly* or

> 3. *Monthly*

>

> and compared to the following fields:

>

> a. Bi-Monthly

> b. Bi-Monthly 1st Quarter

> c. Monthly Reports

>

> compares would result in:

>

> 1. would match a. only

> 2. would match c. only

> 3. would match a, b and c.

>

> btw, if you haven't done it already, don't write it for me....

>

> tia,

>

> rick

>


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