Looks to me your literal delimiter took precedent over space delimiters. In other words, PARSE looked for "." first, and found "word3 word4:word5" between the specified literals.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Peter Hunkeler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
