If the length were 80 bytes and you really want to delete records of 81 or more bytes, use "... | nlocate 81 | ...'
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Simple pipelines question Isn't CHOP the stage you are looking for? /Tom Kern On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:46:09 -0500, Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been out of using pipes for too long. > >I need to process a file (parsing the data) but 1st I need to >delete all records from the input stream longer than a certain >length. How do I do this in pipes? > >Jim
