I just sat down to write a postprocessor for REXXVARS TOLOAD to fill in a specified delimiter, and found out why I hadn't done it back when I asked about this before. AUTOFIELD is the way to pull out the variable name, but there's a complication because the value may include the field delimiter. Long ago, I wrote:
> But Rob's got the right answer: AUTOFIELD, which looks at the first > character of the record for the field separator. ... > pipe literal *1*2*3*|specs autofield -2;-1|cons > 2*3* Turned out this was a bug that had just been fixed, and the last AUTOFIELD no longer includes the trailing delimiter: pipe literal *1*2*3*|specs autofield -2;-1|cons 2*3 I could copy the delimiter to the end of the record and then let AUTOFIELD 2-* drop it--but not if I want to tolerate older pipeline levels. Since I know the variable name will never be null, in this case I can copy the first *two* characters to the end and then drop the last field: ... | specs 1-* 1 1.2 n | specs ... autofield 2;-2 ... In cases where the field might be null, I could produce another record with just the first field and modified separators, and then combine them: ... | specs "=" 1 af 1 2 "=" n write 1-* 1 | combine 1 first | ... Am I overlooking a more straightforward, general approach? I could *almost* avoid the whole issue here by not using TOLOAD, and processing the records in pairs. But I don't want to use the specified delimiter when it occurs in the variable name, so I'd have to produce my own delimiter in that case. ¬R
