"Wilson, Roger" wrote: > CICS 19.5 > DOSVSE .25 > COMP .19 > I need a tab before CICS, DOSVSE or COMP and the numbers.
... | specs x05 1 word 1 next x05 next word 2 next | ... If you know your input records will always be well formed, or if you don't care about the tab character when the number is missing, you can take advantage of the fact that x05 is the default field separator and use the NEXTFIELD keyword to add it implicitly: ... | specs x05 1 word 1 next word 2 nextfield | ... Note that we can't use NEXTFIELD to add the leading tab character, because the separator is only written if the output is already non-null. ¬R
