Re: substr bif question -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: substr bif question
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:49:18 -0500
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Its not clear to me exactly what you are doing, but possibly something like:

c select
c when %subst(SomeField: 1: 3) = 'A '
c ... c when %subst(SomeField: 1: 3) = 'B '
c ...
c when %subst(SomeField: 1: 3) = 'C '
c ...
c when %subst(SomeField: 1: 3) = 'P '
c ...
c other
c ...
c endsl

should work for you and perform reasonably well.

David FOXWELL wrote:

I have to know if a string begins with the 3 characters 'A ', 'B ', 'C ' or 'P '.

I was going to use %substr. If I just put the string in a 3A work variable and compare that, will this be more economical? But then I wouldn't be able to use the bif %substr.

Thanks

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