Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data

David,

I have about 100 free high level subprocedures to handle specific
tasks with data in memory. Here is a build and search example:


d i s 10i 0
d search s 65535a varying

d data s 65535a based(p)
d p s *

d addr s *
d size s 10i 0

/free
// Clear Service Program & Responce Object
clearSrvPgm();
setContent('*none');

// Here I build a buffer with 170.005 bytes
// putting 'xxx' in the middle
for i = 1 to 10000;
echo('my data my data');
if i = 4567;
echo('xxx');
endif;
endfor;

// Here I retreive the address and size of the buffer
// and setup a search criteria for 'xxx'
addr = bufAddr();
size = bufSize();
search = 'xxx';

// Here I loop through the buffer
// searching for 'xxx' that is in pos 77.640
for i = 1 to size-%len(search);
p = addr + i - 1;
if search = %subst(data:1:%len(search));
dsply %char(i);
endif;
endfor;

*inlr = *on;
/end-free



On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:36 PM, John McKay <jmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David,

I have two questions before I post a suggestion ...

First, why do you say you are "not supper[sic] happy with the idea
of having to deal with this data using pointers and C api's ".

Second, what are you looking for in this data or intending to do?


Regards,
John McKay mba
www.rpglanguage.com

On 30/11/2011 16:51, David Gibbs 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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