Re: how to process an RTF string on the iSeries?

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Dennis,

That's encouraging to hear. I see we have the following installed so I think 
I'm good to go there:

5761WDS   *COMPATIBLE  ILE C
5761WDS   *COMPATIBLE  ILE C++
5761WDS   *COMPATIBLE  IXLC for C/C++

But I suppose I needed to ask some clarifying questions about how RTFREADR 
works:

1) I understand it processes a "file". In my case, the RTF string is a 
VARCHAR() column in one of my tables. In order to leverage RTFREADR, am I 
going to have to a) store the VARCHAR() in a file b) execute RTFREADR 
against that file c) copy the output file to whereever?

2) What exactly is RTFREADR returning? The text from the RTF string without 
all the control characters? Is it one long string or is each "line" a record 
in the output .txt file?

Thanks for your help.

"Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> > Thanks for the reply Joe. I did search on RTFREADR. The only source I
> > was able to find was a generic version for the Windows world.
> >
> > Would you mind sharing your source, the compile command used to build
> > it
> > and any implementation notes that go along with it?
>
> Out of curiosity I downloaded the rtfreadr archive from
> http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs.  I saved the members into a new
> source file named RTFREADR in my current library (source length=144),
> renaming members as follows:
>    rtfactn.c => RTFACTN     (SEU Source type = C)
>    rtfdecl.h => RTFDECL_H
>    rtfreadr.c => RTFREADR   (SEU Source type = C)
>    rtftype.h => RTFTYPE_H
>
> The two includes in RTFACTN and RTFREADR were changed to read:
>    #include "rtftype_h.rtfreadr"
>    #include "rtfdecl_h.rtfreadr"
>
> Compiled 2 sources using PDM option 15, with the following on the command
> line:
>    SYSIFCOPT(*IFSIO)
>
> CRTPGM RTFREADER MODULE(RTFREADR RTFACTN)
>
> QSH CMD('/qsys.lib/mylibrary.lib/RTFREADER.PGM /home/mydir/testfile.rtf >
> /home/mydir/testfile.txt')
>
> Everything went as I had hoped.  Whether the output is what you want or 
> not,
> is your call.  (I don't currently have the facility to place a .rtf file 
> on
> the system on which I'm working, and I have none with which to test.)
>
> The only thing that should be stopping you from accomplishing this is the
> lack of a C compiler.  Since you didn't mention that, I assume you're good
> to go.
>
> Dennis Lovelady
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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