RE: Checking for field with Garbage Value in RPG.

Exactly .... what I wanted to know was 'Set of chars that are garbage' (to
define it as a named const).

I did the same thing in a reverse way.
Defining VALID chars as a named constant and used CHECK, since i din't know
what all characters I can have as a garbage. It was just like - I know what
valid chars are and anything else is garbage.

Thanks a lot for your help.


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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:15 PM
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Subject: RE: Checking for field with Garbage Value in RPG.


Gauri,

you need to create a named constant that contains all the invalid
characters, and one that contains as many blanks; for instance:

     d garbage         c                   '%µ£ù=+-_^'
     d blanks          c                   '         '

        /free
                Field = %xlate(garbage:blanks:Field);
        /end-free

Hope this helps.

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
Massive - Kontich, Belgium
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"Gauri Kulkarni" <gauri.kulkarni@xxxxxxxxx>
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17/08/2005 11:27
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XLATE might work in case if I know what exactly the <garbage> is. So that
BLANKS can be replaced with those invalid characters.
Is there any way to define garbage as well ?
Please let me know ..

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