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

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