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Re: %XLATE where lengths are different

On 2020-03-03 2:18 a.m., Booth Martin wrote:
%scanrpl  ??  OK.   I am not seeing a difference between %xlate and %scanRpl, except maybe its the length issue?


Indeed, it's the length issue.

With %XLATE, it's a one-to-one character substitution. It's impossible to use %XLATE to change say '!' to '%21'.

With %SCANRPL, you can replace a character string with another character string, where the second string possibly has a different length, (even a zero length).


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