I am trying to deal with a problem apparently created for me by Mr. Gates Co.
I need to send files from CMS to end users on PCs, where the
files contain data which represents Hebrew characters. I gave
SMTP a translation table which converts the EBCDIC representation
of Hebrew to the ASCII used
3WAY gets you one range of a record. You'll need two, the second on
the tertiary output from the first.
|w1: 3way w4
|g1: gather
\w1:
|reverse
|g1:
\w1:
|w2: 3way w-2
|g1:
\w2:
|reverse
|g1:
\w2:
|g1:
j.
2009/8/25 Shimon Lebowitz shimon...@gmail.com:
I am trying to deal with a problem
Couldn't you use Specs to do this? Assign those parts of the record
that need to be reversed to a variable and use print reverse(var) to
build the output record?
For example
PIPE Strliteral /abcdefg 12345 hijklmn 6789/
| Specs a: w1 . b: w3 . print reverse(a) 1 w2 nw print reverse(b) nw w4 nw
While all-pipes solutions are usually elegant and always inherently cool,
either Bob's or the Piper's could be a challenge to build dynamically. I'd
probably use one or the other - or something similar - for a fixed case,
but I think Shimon's search for a generalized solution would be more easily
That was what I ended up doing.
A REXX stage that performs a loop on each record,
using a parse template with variables as positional parsing points,
and the rexx reverse function.
It is fully adaptable to any number of fields, in any columns.
I have not done any measurements, but it 'feels' quick
Rob van der Heij wrote:
son of zone stage that has the 3way topology of John under the
covers (with addpipe, in case you want to make it yourself). You use
it like this: sozone 22-31 reverse | sozone 48-56 reverse
I didn't think of this last year when you posted it as 3LIGHT, but it
could be
