RE:Copy variable to PF

["Terry Anderson" <terrya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to the RPGLE V5R4 manual %scan can not return an array of
characters found.

<quote>

Note: Unlike the SCAN operation code, %SCAN cannot return an array
containing all occurrences of the search string and its results cannot
be tested using the %FOUND built-in function. 

</quote>

Has this changed?


 


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message: 8
date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:55:52 -0500
from: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Copy variable to PF

Hi, David:

The SCAN opcode, or even better, the $scan BIF, can return an array of 
every position where the search argument was found. So, you can "scan" 
for the ";" and get an array of integers containing the positions of 
each ";".  Then it is an easy matter to loop through this array, and 
dsubstring the results to where ever your program wants them.

Mark S. Waterbury