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Use %scan to find the position of the word LINE, add 5 to that position and you have the first position of the number you are after.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:23 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Scanning Text
I know this can be done alot easier than we are currently, so I thought
I would ask for your suggestions. I have a field that contains "SALES
ORDER 644535 AND LINE 5. XXXXXXX" We need to pull out the next 4
characters after LINE & put that into a character field length of 4 to
be processed later. Now we only want numbers, no characters to be in
the end result. In this example we would like to have "0005" placed
into our field. Now if the file contained "SALES ORDER 644535 AND LINE
155. xxxxxxxxx" we would need it to have "0155" The field is fixed in
length BUT the starting position of LINE could be different.
Any suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks in advance
Steve
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