Re: scan to separate path & file

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

You know, after thinking about this more, it may make sense to add a
"findLastChar()" subprocedure to your arsenal.

This way you can say:

i = findLastChar(inputString:'/');

And it will return the position of it.  Then it's an easy %subst to get the
two parts.

before -= %subst(inputString:1:i);
after = %subst(inputString:i+1);

This could be also used to find the last '.' in a filename to get the
extension as well.  Or it could simply be built upon for a more specific
subproc...

findLastSlash();

calls findLastChar(string:'/'');

findLastPeriod();

calls findLastChar(string:'.');

Just some ideas...  I have a personal set of string functions I've used for
years that I add to all the time when the need comes up.  I may just add
this one in as well.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?
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