Re: scan to separate path & file

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/15/2016 04:15:29
PM:

Methinks there is a better way than what I am doing.

I have a string like "home/One/Two/sample.txt" and want to separate it
as two strings: "home/One/Two/" and "sample.txt". I will be doing this
in an .sqlrpgle program.

Suggestions on approach to this?

While there is no %scanr() there is a %checkr() which will do the
trick. Just decide on the list of characters you will accept in a file
path.

allButSlash = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz+
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ+
01234567890!@#$%^&*()[]{}<>+
-_=+|;:''",.?`~';
pos = %checkr(allButSlash: myFilePath);

Sincerely,

Dave Clark