RE: Checking for field with Garbage Value in RPG.

If the garbage is _always_ on the end of the field, use the CHECK opcode or
%Check() built-in function. 
If it is embedded you need to write your own routine or use the FilterData()
subprocedure in RPG xTools.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Gauri Kulkarni
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 7:28 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Checking for field with Garbage Value in RPG.

Hi,

I am reading a physical file in my RPG program. One of the character fields
in file contains a garbage value. The program reads the input file and
writes into some output file.
I didn't find any OPCODE as such in RPG which will be helpful to detect the
garbage value in a field so that data after that character can be truncated
to populate the output file with good data.
Does anybody know how can I check whether the field contains garbage and at
what position ?
( For e.g. .. If the field has value 'ABCHFGSYGJ^&%&&' , I want to check
that it has a garbage value and from position 11 in this example. So that i
can truncate the data after position 10 to get the good data).


Thanks,
Gauri Kulkarni.



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