Re: Fwd: Question on %scan

A regular expression using the DB2 RegExp_SubStr function?

Numbers: ( Capture Group 1 )
values ( regexp_substr('100 QT', '(\d+)\s?([a-z]+)',1,1,'i',1))

letters: ( Capture Group 2 )
values ( regexp_substr('100 QT', '(\d+)\s?([a-z]+)',1,1,'i',2))



On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 00:47, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

A simple way to do that is to use the %CHECK BIF to find the first
non-numeric character (search for numbers 0-9, period, comma, blank...
maybe also dash) then use %SUBST to separate them. Maybe also use %TRIM
if you don't want leading/trailing spaces.

Good luck

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On 10/10/18 5:04 PM, Thomas Burrows wrote:

I want to put the ALPHA part in one field and the number part in another
field. The end result will be pushed back into an EXCEL file.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:36 PM Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Solution to what? What problem are you trying to solve?


On 10/10/2018 4:13 PM, Thomas Burrows wrote:

If one has a field with values like
10QT
100QT
100 QT

The number part can be any length - okay something reasonable like less
than 10K.

Can and/or cannot have a space in the field.

Then the start of alpha characters. Only the American 26 character
alphabet. Upper or lower case.

Can I solve the problem of taking the numeric part and putting into

another

field by itself AND then putting the character part into an additional
field. At the moment I do not think we need to convert the CASE on the
alpha part.

=================================================

Or would this problem better be solved in COBOL using the INSPECT

statement?

Open to sending a Home Depot Card of a reasonable amount of $$$ "say

$40"

to anyone who can give me a quick solution.

The COBOL Kid - Actually Thomas

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