Re: Extraction problem

You did ask the question on the RPG list ;-)

Anyway, I don't think you can "loop from AA00001 to ZZ99999" in SQL.

If I'm wrong on that, I'd love to hear how you can do it.

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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Wot no SQL ?!


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David,

create a program that loops through all possible values between AA00001
and ZZ99999, does a SETLL to the file, and writes the missing

(=available)

numbers to a workfile, spooled file, etc.

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
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Hi,

I have a file with catalogue numbers like this : AA00001 to ZZ99999.

Is there a neat way to extract all the numbers available ( not being

used

) for a given prefix ?

eg, the list of numbers available between PE00020 and PF99290, list of
numbers with prefix AZ.

Thanks
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