Re: Field concatenation

If as Vernon says blanks are placeholders and you just need a single comma for all blank spaces, then the concat and regex looks like this.

WorkVar = V1 + ' '
+ V2 + ' '
+ V3 + ' '
+ V4 + ' '
+ V5 + ' '
+ V6;

Exec Sql Select
Regexp_Replace(
:WorkVar,
'\s+',',',1,0,'c')
Into :NewVar
From sysibm.sysdummy1;

On Tue, 2020-01-14 at 20:40 +0000, Kevin Bucknum wrote:

Just because I've been in regex hell all morning on another project I decided to see how ugly it would be. If you have unicode installed, this works.

**Free

Dcl-s V1 Char(5);

Dcl-s V2 Char(5);

Dcl-s V3 Char(5);

Dcl-s V4 Char(5);

Dcl-s V5 Char(5);

Dcl-s V6 Char(5);

Dcl-S NewVar Char(35

);

Dcl-S WorkVar Char(35);


V1 = *Blanks;

V2 = '0.022';

V3 = *Blanks;

V4 = *Blanks;

V5 = '0.022';

V6 = *Blanks;


WorkVar = %Trim(V1) + ','

+ %Trim(V2) + ','

+ %Trim(V3) + ','

+ %Trim(V4) + ','

+ %Trim(V5) + ','

+ %Trim(V6);


Exec Sql Select Regexp_Replace(

Regexp_Replace(

Trim(:WorkVar),

',{3,}',',,',1,0,'c'),

'^,{2}|,{2}$',',',1,0,'c')

Into :NewVar

From sysibm.sysdummy1;


Dsply WorkVar;

Dsply NewVar;

*Inlr = *On;

Return;




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