Oh yes, I forgot to add that if you use the $OPTIONS REAL.SUBSTR you can also use other negative values as the second substring parameter, which then indicates that you want to start the substring extraction from your starting point but extract only until the Xth character from the end. For instance:
0001 $OPTIONS REAL.SUBSTR 0002 X="1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" 0003 PRINT "A: ":X[11,-1] 0004 PRINT "B: ":X[11,-5] will result in: A: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ B: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV _________________________________________________________ "I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage Glenn M. Herbert - Connectivity Development Engineer Information Integration Solutions, IBM Software Group 50 Washington Street Westboro, MA 01581 508-599-7281 direct Some platforms (Reality, maybe?) had the -1 option on substring extractions; I thought that was clever. Too bad it never caught on, or if it did, I didn't notice. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com -----Original Message----- ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
