Re: Hex attribute characters in rpgle source member column 5 issue

[Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dave and Mike.
Unfortunately, there are a number of developers (and help desk people) that
still use SEU for editing, so I need to leave the attribute character in
place.

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another way is to select the zero width character (yes, LPEX lets you do
> that), copy it, and paste it into the Find/Replace dialog.
>
> Dave Shaw
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: "Jones, Mike" <mike.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
> System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Hex attribute characters in rpgle source member
> column 5 issue
>
>
> I use this command at the bottom of the LPEX editor to strip out those
> x'22' values:
>
>    findText all replaceWith "" regularExpression \u0082
>
> Unicode 0082 is the equivalent of EBCDIC hex 22.  You can use the right
> click "Source" -> "Hex Edit Line" feature to see Unicode to EBCDIC CP037
> hex equivalents.
>
> I use this command looking for other special characters:
>
>    findText regularExpression [^\x20-\x7E]
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