Good day to all DFSORT gurus, Ok, I was not into these discussion lists for a time, was busy with 1001 other things..
Question: Is it possible to use SS ('Substring Search') where I search for variety of formats, like this one: With input (sitting "anywhere" in a record): ----3--- 1 ABCDE 0F0CCDDC 11581797 ... I want to use SS to search for above input: ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+ 1,500,SS,EQ,X' 'C'1'X' 'C'ABCDE' F6FFF6EE6CD6E707C7F7E707C7CCCCC7 1B500B22B58B7D1D3D1D7D5D3D12345D I want to search for four terms: X'01' and C'1' and X'05' and C'ABCDE'. All these 4 terms are next to each other. You Assembler gurus should immediately see that I want search 4 terms where the term 1 and term 3 are having the lengths of term 2 and term 4. I have a source file where I am having different such sets of 4 terms, like term 2 is 3 characters long and term 4 is say 3 characters long, but I need to select only these records where term 2 is 1 character long and term 4 is 5 characters long. Is it possible with DFSORT (and ICETOOL)? This is easy to program, but dataset is large (define "large" ;-D ) and I want to have one single pass with several SS statements. Many thanks in advance. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN