Re: Help converting to /FREE with find/replace

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edmund

I use this feature quite a bit. I imagine the Alt-S split could be useful.

I haven't seen, can we save a set of keystrokes to be executed later? It 
looks as if it is only the most recently captured set.

Thanks
Vern

On 7/15/2011 1:12 PM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
> You might want to explore the ability to record and replay keystrokes in
> Lpex.
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>    From:       "Tyler, Matt"<matt.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>    Date:       07/15/2011 12:38 PM
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>    Subject:    Re: [WDSCI-L] Help converting to /FREE with find/replace
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> 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.
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>   I have not attempted to insert extra lines but this find and replace in
> the text editor is different from the LPEX tool.
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> If you open in text editor you have to insert sequence and date values
> for new lines yourself.
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> Thanks, Matt
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> From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Paul Bailey
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:10 AM
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> Subject: [WDSCI-L] Help converting to /FREE with find/replace
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> Hi,
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> 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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