Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data

I agree with the Gary's suggestion.

As regards regular expressions, I have a service program / function available which makes the regex api's more manageable in an rpg program.

It is at www.rpglanguage.com/regexp and is free to download / use.

Regards,
John McKay mba

On 01/12/2011 21:11, Monnier, Gary wrote:

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
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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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