Re: parse for words over 8 characters -- RPG400-L

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You need to be a bit more specific.

What is a "word"? i.e. what are the separators?

What to do about hyphenated words? One word or two? Stuff in parentheses etc. etc.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jun 14, 2017, at 7:11 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I need to locate all the words over 8 characters in a file of 90 columns by 1500 rows.

What I have figured out is real Rube Goldberg. RPG or SQL? Or? What makes sense to you?

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