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Re: Help with Inspect _src_ replacing all [SPACE]ALPHANUMERIC[SPACE] by space
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| vferr094@alumni.uottawa.ca 2007-11-01, 6:55 pm |
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William M. Klein wrote:
> "Robert" <no@e.mail> wrote in message
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> Robert,
> What makes you say that was the original question? (read above or to quote
> ...
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> "I need to replace a space followed by any A-Z or 1-0 followed by another space
> by just a space"
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> the word "all" appears in "to represent all alphanumeric" but it still appears
> to be talking about a single character.
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> Now, the OP *may* have wanted a routine to replace a "word" - but that wasn't
> how I read the request.
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> --
> Bill Klein
> wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
Hey guys!
Well, I tried the suggestion above, and sure enough it worked.
I am sorry for not originally describing the problem very clearly. It
was somewhere along the lines...
I have a string say- ' big fresh a apple'
I needed to scrapout the a and replace it with a space, I realize this
will give me double spaces, but I have a routine later that scrubs off
additional spaces, which was why I didnt care.
I would have picked perl if I could have done it in any other
language, the thing is, had to be done in Cobol. I'm a java programmer
who's been working with Cobol for the last while, so I am still
transitioning and not quite an expert on it :)
Thanks again, Van
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| Robert 2007-11-01, 6:55 pm |
| On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:29:44 -0700, vferr094@alumni.uottawa.ca wrote:
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>William M. Klein wrote:
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>Hey guys!
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>Well, I tried the suggestion above, and sure enough it worked.
>
>I am sorry for not originally describing the problem very clearly. It
>was somewhere along the lines...
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>I have a string say- ' big fresh a apple'
>I needed to scrapout the a and replace it with a space, I realize this
>will give me double spaces, but I have a routine later that scrubs off
>additional spaces, which was why I didnt care.
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>I would have picked perl if I could have done it in any other
>language, the thing is, had to be done in Cobol. I'm a java programmer
>who's been working with Cobol for the last while, so I am still
>transitioning and not quite an expert on it :)
>Thanks again, Van
In something like " '*' ", I interpreted * to mean any number of characters.
If you had used a question mark, it would have been clear you meant one character.
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| Pete Dashwood 2007-11-01, 6:55 pm |
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"Robert" <no@e.mail> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:29:44 -0700, vferr094@alumni.uottawa.ca wrote:
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<snip>[color=darkred]
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> In something like " '*' ", I interpreted * to mean any number of
> characters.
> If you had used a question mark, it would have been clear you meant one
> character.
Yep. Me too.
Just shows how important it is to formulate requirements carefully and
unequivocally :-)
Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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| William M. Klein 2007-11-01, 6:55 pm |
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"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
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> "Robert" <no@e.mail> wrote in message
> news:m1cki31kb3qfg3q8vvmtvhmvg3n7l60gvt@
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> Yep. Me too.
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> Just shows how important it is to formulate requirements carefully and
> unequivocally :-)
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> Pete.
> --
> "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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<joke>
Just goes to show you how knowing other languages can SOMETIMES confuse your
reading in a COBOL newsgroup. I read the words - and "*" didn't mean anything
special to me.
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
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| Pete Dashwood 2007-11-01, 6:55 pm |
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"William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:5ov47vFosinvU1@mid.individual.net...
> <joke>
> Just goes to show you how knowing other languages can SOMETIMES confuse
> your reading in a COBOL newsgroup. I read the words - and "*" didn't mean
> anything special to me.
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Never typed a DOS command, then, Bill? [DIR *.*]
Or written SQL? [SELECT * FROM WILDCARDS WHERE SYMBOLS NOT IN (SELECT *
FROM KLEINEXPERIENCE)]
:-)
Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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