Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data

["Monnier, Gary" <Gary.Monnier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can you use a user space?  That gives you 16 Mb. 

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On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:26 AM, "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> I've got a problem where I need to analyze and manipulate very large blocks of character data.
>
> This character data could be well in excess of 64k.
>
> Since the limit for RPG character fields on 5.4 is 64k ... I can't use normal BIF's.
>
> Upgrading to 6.1 isn't an option due to customer requirements (this was my first idea, but it got shot down).
>
> My current thought is to use pointers and C functions to analyze the text in the space.
>
> %alloc to create space and get a pointer
>
> strstr in place of %scan(s)
> strlen in place of %len(%trim(s))
> strcat & %realloc in place of s1 + s2
> strncpy in place of %subst
>
> dealloc when I'm done with the space.
>
> Obviously I would wrapper the C functions in procedures so I don't have to deal with the individual C api's directly.
>
> I'm not supper happy with the idea of having to deal with this data using pointers and C api's ... Any suggestions on a different approach to handling these large character variables?
>
> Thanks!
>
> david
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