Couldn't you use Specs to do this? Assign those parts of the record that need to be reversed to a variable and use "print reverse(var)" to build the output record?
For example PIPE Strliteral /abcdefg 12345 hijklmn 6789/ | Specs a: w1 . b: w3 . print reverse(a) 1 w2 nw print reverse(b) nw w4 nw | Console produces: gfedcba 12345 nmlkjih 6789 -- bc On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 AM, John P. Hartmann<jphartm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 3WAY gets you one range of a record. You'll need two, the second on > the tertiary output from the first. > > |w1: 3way w4 > |g1: gather > \w1: > |reverse > |g1: > \w1: > |w2: 3way w-2 > |g1: > \w2: > |reverse > |g1: > \w2: > |g1: > > j. > > 2009/8/25 Shimon Lebowitz <shimon...@gmail.com>: >> I am trying to deal with a problem apparently created for me by Mr. Gates & >> Co. >> >> I need to send files from CMS to end users on PCs, where the >> files contain data which represents Hebrew characters. I gave >> SMTP a translation table which converts the EBCDIC representation >> of Hebrew to the ASCII used by Windows, but the PC is a smart alec, >> and also reverses the character order, since Hebrew reads right to left. >> >> So, if I have input records like this on CMS: >> >> 2008 12987 65084 abcdefgh 78346 45239 tuvwxyz 873468 >> 2009 31 836 ijklmno 169827 8373 mnop 34902 >> >> (Note: the letters in the actual record will be Hebrew! I only used >> English to prevent the confusion that happens when the order gets >> reversed. And besides, how many of you have Hebrew fonts?). >> >> If I SendFile a file of those records to a MS-Win system, >> the characters will be displayed on the screen as hgfedcba, zyxwvut, >> etc. In order to have the data normal when it arrives, I need >> to reverse the field which contains the Hebrew text, but obviously NOT >> the other parts of the record, which would destroy the numeric values. >> >> What I think would be my favorite solution would be for the REVERSE >> stage to accept inputranges, as the XLATE stage does. That would be great! >> A simple ... | REVERSE 22-31 48-56 | ... would solve my problem >> easily and elegantly. But... REVERSE has no ranges. :-( >> >> Since the EXEC I am writing must deal with many different >> files, and will receive external arguments defining the positions >> of the Hebrew fields, I need a generalized solution. I tried something >> with a particular case, where I knew the positions (only one >> Hebrew field 5-24) and the record length (fixed 32): >> ... >> 'F1: FANOUT |', >> 'F2: FANINANY |', >> 'JOIN 1 |', >> 'SPECS 1-32 1 33-* 5 |', >> '>' OUTPUTID, >> '? F1: |', >> 'SPECS 5-24 1 |', >> 'REVERSE |', >> 'F2:' >> >> How would I generalize this? And is there a better way? >> >> Thanks! >> Shimon >> >
