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rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. Parse variable length, delimited, data into a data structure?
>      (David Gibbs)
>
>Anyone know of a technique, or routine, that will take a variable 
>length, delimited, string of data and parse it into a data structure?
>
>Ideally, I would like to have the data structure externally defined ... 
>and have the parsed values placed in each field sequentially.
>
>I could probably write something myself, but if there's code out there 
>already, why reinvent the wheel?

Well, I know how I'd do it... but this is the RPG list. Saying that COBOL's 
UNSTRING verb does in one statement essentially precisely what you ask is OT.  
:-)

Tom Liotta

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