Re: IFS File Update

scan and replace is a bad method!

an IFS file is a large string of data, XML is a data structure

you may have <currencyCode>EUR</currencyCode>

you may have <text>the price is in EUR</text>

you may have <price currencyCode="EUR">12.50</price>

replacing EUR blindfolded may have large impact!




On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Looks OK - but I'm not sure the risk and lack of flexibility is worth it.

Personally I'd always do an update-by-copy.


On 2014-09-02, at 11:33 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And therein lies the rub. The text that I want to change could be the

same

size as what I want to replace it with, but the sizes could be

different. A

better way of saying that is that I may have to replace 10 bytes with 10
bytes, or 15 bytes with 15 bytes, but I won't have to replace different
sizes. I won't know what the size is until I read the file.

So, would something like this work?

open...
read into buffer...
use %scan to search buffer and locate text to change...
use lseek to position to that location...
use write to change the file at that location (for a certain number of
bytes)...
close...




On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Scott Klement <

rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

You can position to a particular byte of your file using the lseek() API

Once positioned, the write() API will overwrite bytes at that position
(for the length specified on the call to write API)

Is that what you're asking? {There weren't actually any questions in

your

post.)



On 9/2/2014 10:02 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:

I need to update data in a stream file located in ths IFS (or on a QNTC
share). I know I can read the data from the file, and then write to
another
file, and then delete/rename I guess, but I want to update in place. I
don't want to use any procedures that add a CRLF. I'm thinking of using
read() and write(), but I'm not sure how to handle the update. Probably
pretty simple. Thanks!

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