Re: Replace 1 Char with 3Char's

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm with Dennis.  Use sed.  This could hardly be easier than with sed.

Though, I personally think it's an idiotic thing to do to begin with. 
You should never be putting an XML file into a PF to begin with.  What's 
stopping you from processing the XML straight from the IFS?  (That is, 
after all, the normal way to process XML!)

Lowary, Jim wrote:
> Does anyone know of away (other than brute force) to replace one
> Character with 3 Characters?
>
> This is an XML file that I am getting via the httpapi via http_url_post
> function [Thanks Scott!], in an RPG program. The program I'm trying to
> replace is a Delphi program that took a block of data and did a replace
> in each block of data with some Delphi function that would replace "<"
> with 'CRLF' +"<" so that it could be later copied into a fix length
> record format to process on the iSeries. (the xml is all one long
> string, yuck!)
>
> Only way I can think of is with two user spaces and using pointers, etc.
> I'm so close to shoving one more Delphi program out the door and getting
> this entirely a iSeries function.  I just had to ask before I beat my
> head on a wall coming up with something to do this.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Jim Lowary (looking for a soft wall!)