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  3. October 2003

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

Dave Boettcher wrote: 
So.., why not create a function in COBOL using unstring and pass parameters
to it from RPG.  You have the COBOL compiler with all the rest, right?  Why
does it need to be written in RPG IV?

Mainly lack of Cobol knowledge. We're an RPG / Java shop.

Additionally, I would really like the target data structure to be soft coded ... we don't have to create a new COBOL procedure to do the "unstring" function for each data structure we create.

david



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