Re: Help converting to /FREE with find/replace

You need to open the source not in LPEX. The RegEx functionality is one
line only. I have explored via RSE to the remote temp version or
created a i[Series] Project and then opened with the text editor.

I have not attempted to insert extra lines but this find and replace in
the text editor is different from the LPEX tool.

If you open in text editor you have to insert sequence and date values
for new lines yourself.

Thanks, Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Paul Bailey
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:10 AM
To: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Help converting to /FREE with find/replace

Hi,

I am converting source members to /FREE as I go. Some of the existing
source was probably written in the days of the first RPG version, and if
they were ever updated the newer RPG code was added and the older RPG
code remained, so you can end up with condition indicators, the program
cycle, BIFs and SQL all in the same 10 line program (for example).

RDP's /FREE conversion doesn't handle everything from the older versions
of RPG, but it is possible to run several complex regular expression
Find/Replaces before the /FREE convert to change a lot of the parts that
wouldn't normally work.

My problem is that opcodes such as LOOKUP, or lines with conditional
indicators often require more than one source line. Does anyone know how
I can place a newline into the "replace" text so that I can turn a
single line into more than one?

E.g., using find (CTRL-F) with regular expressions:
FIND: ^(.....)C\s{3}(\d{2})\s{14}ITER\s*$
REPLACE: $1C IF \*IN$2 = *ON\\n$1C
ITER\\n$1C ENDIF

That example works perfectly, but I have to search for the "\n"s, delete
them and use ALT-s (action split) to put the code lines on three
separate lines.

Can anyone tell me how to get the REPLACE text to have newlines in it?
Don't worry about mentioning other tools that convert to /FREE more
successfully, as I can only work with the tools I have.


Cheers,
Paul.


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