Re: Parse variable length, delimited, data into a data structure?

Using the QUSLFLD API is overkill, eh?

I've been thinking of someday (sigh..) writing a simple
procedure to return the basic PF (or LF, etc.) stuff in a
procedure call: type, length, decimals, instead of
hardcoding everything upon need.

- Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Cochran" <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Parse variable length, delimited, data into a
data structure?


| David,
|
| I have a routine that tokenizes a String into array
elements.  In order
| to do what you are asking the routine would have to know
the exact data
| structure layout and field names so it doesn't seem
likely, but you
| could easily loop through this array and populate your
specific DS.
| Maybe you could even do a nifty pointer trick to make it
automagic, but
| it hurts my head to think of that right now...
|
| Hre's the doc, see if this will help:
| http://www.rpgnext.com/docs/rnbstring.php#getTokens
|
| Joel
| http://www.rpgnext.com
|
|
| On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 20:10, David Gibbs wrote:
| > 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?
| >
| > Thanks!
| >
| > david
| >
| >
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