Re: Is there an alternative to FNDSTRPDM?

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barbara

Just jumping in here - seems I remember that FNDSTRPPDM does not take 
fields into account when run against a non-source physical file - 
hope this has not been said already - have been asleep!

This has been a good tool for me when looking in a library for where 
some value appears - anywhere - in a PF. But I've always assumed I 
COULD get false positives.

Vern

At 09:17 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote:

> Scott Klement wrote:
> >
> > I'd be tempted to write my own, which would be pretty easy to do.  In
> > RPG it'd pretty much just be reading the flat record (without splitting
> > it into fields) and running %scan() over it.  And do that in a loop.
> > Pretty easy.
> >
>
> If you don't split it into fields, you run the risk of getting false
> hits if you get a match that spans two fields.  You could do the scan
> and then add a check that the location of the hit was entirely within
> one fields.
>
> And to nitpick one nit too far, I suppose you should also check that it
> wasn't within a binary or packed field.  2206311169 = x'8381a301' = 'cat.'
>
>
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