Dennis,
Thanks for the push.
I was looking at
http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html and had just read about character classes when I received your reply.
I continued looking and found a CL example that I was able to modify to get the desired result
PGM
DCL VAR(&X0D) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1) VALUE(X'0D')
DCL VAR(&X25) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1) VALUE(X'25')
DCL VAR(&SEDCMD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(100)
CHGVAR VAR(&SEDCMD) VALUE('sed +
"s%[\][.]br[\]%\'||&x0D||'\'||&X25||'%g"
/joe/temp/in.hl7 > /joe/temp/out.hl7')
QSH CMD(&SEDCMD)
ENDPGM
Is this what you had in mind?
Of course, I am curious as to why we have to do it this way!
Thanks,
Joe
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Dennis Lovelady<iseries-HF96MFG82JhWk0Htik3J/w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3/19/2010 12:40 PM >>>
This is the command I am running:
qsh cmd('sed "s%[\.br\]%\r\n%g" /joe/temp/in.hl7 > /joe/temp/out.hl7')
in.hl7 contains this -
\.br\hello\.br\joe
after running the command, out.hl7 contains this -
rnrnrnrnrnhellornrnrnrnrnjoe
Yes. You are telling sed to replace any backslash, any period, any b, or
any r with the sequence of \r\n. It's doing that because you've defined a
class to be replaced, and the class contains all those characters. ->
[\.br\] <- This is not what you want. You want a command more like this:
sed s%[\][.]br[\]%\r\n% (or the more obvious but less readable
s%\\\.br\\%\r\n%)
But I'm not sure why the \r\n is not being converted to CRLF. Pretty sure
that will work on a unix system. Hmmm... a challenge, since I see that
doesn't work in either QSH or PASE. Hmmm... If I were on a unix terminal
or writing a unix script, I'd just include a CTRL+M between the quotes, but
that won't work here.
If someone doesn't provide you a better solution, I will post a CL program
(as an example) that can do this.
Dennis Lovelady
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