Re: Varying fields questions

your file will look like

ISA*00* *00* *ZZ*RECEIVERID *12*SENDERID
*100325*1113*U*00403*000011436*0*T*>~
GS*FA*RECEIVERID*SENDERID*20100325*1113*24712*X*004030~
ST*997*1136~
AK1*PO*142~
AK2*850*0142~
AK5*A~
AK9*A*1*1*1~
SE*6*1136~
GE*1*24712~
IEA*1*000011436~



On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The string is an EDI X12 string. The question are how much you
need to read in the entire document?


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is not clear to me what exactly you are trying to do but I get the hint
that you are trying to apply a monolith solution to an ILE problem and
return everything in one call.

I think you are trying to do a read line combined with a tokenize a string
function.

By read line, I mean read all the characters up to the <CR><LF> characters
and then by tokenize I mean break the line down into individual strings
each one being delimited by an '*'.

Is this an accurate description of the problem?

If yes, I accomplish this with two service programs.

the IFS service program has a Read LIne function and the string function
has a tokenizer with the following functions.

XVSTGF_Tokenize
XVSTGF_GetToken
XVSTGF_GetTokenSize
etc

My point being that you need to break things down into small functions.

If you are interested I can send you the code.


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Jack Tucky <jacktucky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I modified Scott K's CSV code to process a string passed in instead of
reading from an IFS file. I called the function EDI_GetFld. I also

added

parameters for field delimiter and record delimiter so that I could

process

an EDI segment like this:



ISA*00* *00* *ZZ*SENDER *ZZ*RECEIVER
*140102*1141*U*00400*000047073*0*P**~



I use 18 EDI_GetFld's to fill all of the ISA's 18 fields. Everything

looks

good.



EDI_getfld(peFldData: isa00: %size(isa00):sep:term)

EDI_getfld(peFldData: isa01: %size(isa01):sep:term), etc.



Isa00-ISA018 are defined as varying fields. They are in a DS that
represents all of the fields in an ISA Segment, ISA00 -ISA18.



My goal is to replace some 3rd party code that is no longer working. To
accomplish this and not have to change a bunch of programs, I need to

move

this data structure to a 512 character max string, like this:



OutDta = ISA;



My problem is that OutDta contains varying field length bytes?



If you look at the individual fields, they look good:



ISA00 OF ISA = 'ISA'

ISA01 OF ISA = '00'

ISA02 OF ISA = ' '

ISA03 OF ISA = '00'

ISA04 OF ISA = ' '

ISA05 OF ISA = 'ZZ'

ISA06 OF ISA = 'SENDER '

ISA07 OF ISA = 'ZZ'

ISA08 OF ISA = 'RECEIVER '

ISA09 OF ISA = '140102'

ISA10 OF ISA = '1141'

ISA11 OF ISA = 'U'

ISA12 OF ISA = '00400'



But OutDta in debug/hex shows this:



0003C9E2 C10002F0 F0000A40 40404040 - ..ISA..00..

40404040 400002F0 F0000A40 40404040 - ..00..

40404040 400002E9 E9000FC7 C9C9C940 - ..ZZ..SEND

40404040 40404040 40400002 E9E9000F - ..ZZ..

C4E8D5C1 D4C9C340 40404040 40404000 - XXXXXXX .

06F1F4F0 F1F0F200 04F1F1F4 F10001E4 - .140102..1141..U

0005F0F0 F4F0F000 09F0F0F0 F0F4F7F0 - ..00400..0000470

F7F30001 F00001D7 00004000 01A10000 - 73..0..P.. ..~..



Is there a way to move my data structure that contains all varying

fields

into a 512 character string and strip the lengths out? I've tried
changing
Scott's code to use 512 fixed length fields as input and output but I
can't
get that to work if I don't pass in 512 characters.



Sorry for the long post and I hope this makes sense. Thanks



Jack

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