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Jon,

I read your opinion after my answer.

For me this option make it more versatile. But any one may have their preferences.

And writing a subprocedure based on Steve's suggestion may result in the same resolution as XLATE is offering under the covers (scan, substring, etc).

Feels like reinventing the wheel to me. At least, that is how I interpret (or assume) the working of this BIF.

It may be a wrong implementation within this BIF, but after all those years having this option, it should have been documented in the manuals. Removing this option would have broken code (at least code I wrote using this option).

It is a tool that is useful for me.

Just my 2 Euro cents.

Regards,

Carel Teijgeler


Op 24-5-2016 om 23:48 schreef Jon Paris:
Yes Carel - once I saw the original tip I was able to work it out.

Just don’t like it so I’m continuing with plan A based on Steve’s subprocedure.


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On May 24, 2016, at 5:13 PM, Carel <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jon,

Cannot access my own code at the moment. Being unemployed and thus no access to a machine 8>(


But when converting a packed date field (length 8P0) with format YYYYMMDD to a format DD-MM-YYYYY it was something like this:

oldformat ('ABCDEFGH')

newformat('GH-EF-ABCD')

and then using xlate (or %xlate)

Newdate = %xlate(oldformat:%char(olddate):newformat) (with the corrected syntax from Chuck, I did not remember the exact syntax)

would change a date like

20160524 to 24-05-2016

ABCDEFGH GH-EF-ABCD

Newdate should have a length for the new string, thus length 10.

Worked for me. The article by Ted Holt learned me this nifty technique and I have used it since. Never looked at the newer BIFs to do the same thing. ("It ain't broke, thus ...")

Regards,

Carel Teijgeler



Op 24-5-2016 om 22:05 schreef Jon Paris:
Hi Carel,

I actually checked the manual to be sure I wasn’t mismembering before I responded to your post.

Just checked your code like so:

Dsply %xlate('1234':'12-3=4':'1234’);

And that results in 12-3 - which is exactly as it should be. Each character is replaced by the matching character from the mask. So the 1 is replaced by 1, same for 2, 3 is replaced by - because it is in the position that matches 3 in the from string. 4 is replaced by 3 because that is in the fourth position.

Can you check your production code because I have to believe it is not %Xlate that you are using.

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On May 24, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Carel <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry I have to disagree with you on this.

When

My input = 1234

My FromFormat = ABCD

My ToFormat = AB-C=D

then

output = %xlate(FromFormat:ToFormat:input) will be 12-3=4

Try it. I used this technique (learned from Ted Holt) to reformat dates.

Regards,

Carel Teijgeler



Op 24-5-2016 om 18:35 schreef Jon Paris:
Not really Carel - it only does a 1 for 1 replacement.

So turning this: “123456” into “123-456” would not be doable.

%ScanRpl is closer but still is in replacement mode whereas I really want to insert.

Looks like Steve’s subproc is the best starting point.


Jon Paris

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On May 24, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Carel <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think XLATE/%xlate can be usefull here.


Regards,

Carel Teijgeler


Op 24-5-2016 om 0:26 schreef Jon Paris:
I know it is Monday but in theory it is a holiday here …

I need to edit some character fields - simply edits similar to what would be needed for a date.

My brain tells me there are functions to do this but edit words and codes only apply to numerics and even among the MI functions they are all numeric.

Am I mismembering? or do I really have to do it the hard way? Seems such a trivial requirement which is why I’m convinced I’m missing something.


Jon Paris

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