RE: Find special characters in RPG source

That works. Thank you

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shore via RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00 PM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Find special characters in RPG source

Hi Justin
The problem that I have been having is that what is copied is special characters that cannot be displayed on the AS/400 I built this SQL

with nontrans as
(SELECT rrn(a), a.CHNUM,
TRANSLATE(UPPER(a.CHTXT), ' ',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()-=+/\{}[];:.,<>?
½¾ÀÁÉÍÑÚ~¢¦¬_`"|''') as TRANSL
, CHTXT
FROM nbjdta.csthistp a
WHERE
(TRANSLATE(UPPER(a.CHTXT), ' ',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()-=+/\{}[];:.,<>?
½¾ÀÁÉÍÑÚ~¢¦¬_`"|''')
<> ' ')
order by rrn(a))
select hex(substr(trim(x.TRANSL), 1, 1)),
x.* from nontrans x
where substr(trim(x.TRANSL), 1, 1) < x'40'
and hex(substr(trim(x.TRANSL), 1, 1)) not in ('1A', '36')

This will display those characters

You can manipulate the above to remove the | from the translation and see the results



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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:52 PM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Find special characters in RPG source

I regularly paste text into RPG source (in RDi). Sometimes the text contains special characters (e.g. tabs). Does anyone know of a good way to check a source member for special characters?


TIA
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