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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of tony babonas
>
> Thanks for the clarification, FY, that's what I get for
> reading the list from home without my trusty office PC at hand....
> Based on the limited snippet of sample records, this is
> theoretically achievable if there is not more than 1 ~
> character per record. Having no qualms of being accused of
> crudeness in manipulating such data, we have some real life
> apps where I read and compare every byte of the record for
> the desired character, 'outfil-ing' each into a separate
> dataset, then re-assembling the whole lot in the second pass.
Blech! That's what the E15 exit point and the assembler TRT instruction are
for.
> The A-10 Warthog isn't pretty either, but it sure does the job.
Yeah, but it doesn't carry just one bullet, fire it, return to base for
another, return to the battlefield, etc.
-jc-
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