RE: MOVEA in RPG Free

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Or take a look at strtok, which is another of those C functions that returns 
the components of a string that are separated by a character (or characters?) 
you specify - default is white space. You use this function in a loop, also, 
until it returns to say no more token ("word") delimiters.

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> Oh...then I'd do it this way... 
> 
> D InFld 9A 
> D OutFld 5A 
> D I 2 0 
> D J Like(I) 
> 
> /Free 
> For I = 1 to %Len(InFld); 
> If %SubSt(InFld:I:1) <> *Blanks; 
> J +=1; 
> %SubSt(OutFld:J:1) = %SubSt(InFld:I:1); // Appropriate error 
> checking of course... 
> EndIf; 
> EndFor; 
> /End-Free 
> 
> But that's just the way I think about code. I wouldn't use an array 
> myself because the elements of the array aren't the same in terms of 
> usage - they're part of a string. So I would use a string manipulation 
> function to do it. Then, you could make this a procedure so other 
> programs could use it too. 
> 
> > -------- Original Message -------- 
> > Subject: RE: MOVEA in RPG Free 
> > From: "Emmanuel Zannis" 
> > Date: Thu, July 07, 2005 10:58 am 
> > To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" 
> > 
> > The whole story: Incoming variable has value (9a) of "1 34 6789". I need to 
> extract the values 13467. Jerry's solutions and your option II solution allow 
> me 
> to pass the value of the variable to a work array where in a loop the non 
> blanks 
> elements are passed to a second array. When the loop end the element values 
> "13467" are then passed to a variable which is 5A. 
> > 
> > Thank you for your reply.