Well, uhm, AFTER would be cheating (and will work in this case, thanks.) What happened to "work harder not smarter" (from a Dilbert cartoon). . . . and . . . Brute force and awkwardness (college professor). Sincerely, thanks, Steve
-----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: need a SPECS guru You seem to be looking for PICK - eg pick w8 >> ,20140225, The classic approach would be to inject a dummy record in the stream, sort on date, and ignore all records before the dummy. PS It would be cheating to remind you of the AFTER option on LISTFILE ;-) On 27 June 2014 16:14, Gentry, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > In a CMS environment, I have a list of files, created by LISTFILE. > The format of the file_type, in this list, will be DATE('S') yyyymmdd > I want to take a predetermined date, already in DATE('S') format, and > compare it to the above mentioned file_type. If the file type date is > less than or equal to the predetermined date I want to ignore it. Or > if the file type date is greater than the predetermined date, I want to pass > it on > to the next stage. I was hoping for a PIPE stage that would do this type > of logical compare but I didn't find one, or at least one with an > obvious name/function. If there is a stage, please let me know. > However, if there isn't a stage to do this, I think I'll have to do this with > a SPEC stage. > While I've gotten better at writing pipe code, the SPEC stage is > still a challenge for me and hence the need for a SPECS guru. > Could someone help with this SPECs stage? > Thanks, > Steve >
