This is some Friday fun with parsing with REXX. First I was baffled with the result, now I understand. So *no* I will not join the TSO/REXX list ;-) I've got a data set to process with REXX. The records are of format:
"word1 word2.word3 word4:word5.word6 word7 hh.mm.ss" What I need is each record split into: var1 = "word1" var2 = "word2.word3" var3 = "word4:word5.word6" var4 = "word7" var5 = "hh" var6 = "mm" var7 = "ss" Easy, I thought and coded: PARSE VAR input var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 "." var6 "." var7 . The result baffled me and was far from anything I understood at first. Here is what the variables look like: var1 ==> "word1" var2 ==> "word2" var3 ==> "" var4 ==> "" var5 ==> "" var6 ==> "word3 word4:word5" var7 ==> "word6" Have fun. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
