Re: %XLATE where lengths are different

Hi Booth, It sound like you are trying to do an URLENCODE of a string ...
why not use URLENCODE function?

select SYSTOOLS.URLENCODE('_!_&_ _+_-_', 'UTF-8')
from sysibm.sysdummy1;

You get a plus ('+') instead '&20' for space char ...but it could be good
... or you could %xlate only this char ...



Il giorno mar 3 mar 2020 alle ore 20:39 Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
ha scritto:

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).

--
Barbara

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