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David,
Can you use the regex APIs to accomplish your string interrogation? They're available at V5R4.
Gary
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:29 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data
On 12/1/2011 2:20 PM, CRPence wrote:
How about using some SQL procedures [and\or functions] to perform the
work using CLOB data type, since SQL has similar capability to various
RPG BIFs? For example a scan implemented as a procedure might look
like:
I'm still limited to 64k for the text variable ... since I would need to pass it to the stored procedure.
PLUS (and this is just a personal preference) I really dislike RPG SQL ... I like the concept, but not the implementation (I dislike code generators in general).
david
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