Howard Brazee wrote: >I am reading in a text document and want to create a sorted table. > >The document has a key in two places, based on SSN (with a suffix) >looking like 123-45-6789-01 (columns 59-72 & 92-105). The other >number for the table is in 123-45-6789 format in columns 34-44 & in >columns 104-124. > > >I will look for a dash in one of these positions, if the dash is not >found, ignore this line altogether. > > >What I want to create is a table that I can read in sorted by the key >above, the table will have two numbers without dashes 12345678901 & >123456789. > > >There will be duplicates I'd like to get rid of, but I'd like to know >if there are any duplicate keys that did not have duplicate non-keys >(at least for testing).
Howard, Please show an example of the input records and the expected output records. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
