On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:43:34 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >Watch out for the "no second qualifier" special case. FOOBAR is a valid >dataset name. > Can it be catalogued? Is it copacetic to SMS? (I think "SMPMCS" is prevalent on SMP/E installation tapes, and the OP didn't require that the data set was on DASD or catalogued.)
Nor did he specify what he wanted if more than two qualifiers: all the remainder, or only the second and third. In some cases, I've appended a separator character and removed it afterwards in order to render special cases ordinary. >-----Original Message----- >From: Pinnacle >Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 10:28 AM > >I have a dataset FIRST.SECOND.THIRD, and I want to get SECOND.THIRD. >Normally I would loop to one character at a time to get to the '.', but I need >performance here. I sure some of you assembler gurus could give me some >inscrutable assembler to get there in like one or two instructions. Thanks in >advance! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
