Thanks much! Changing the subvalue marks to some other character did the
trick!
At 11:32 AM 10/14/05, Stevenson, Charles wrote:
TRANS( file, mv.ids, mv.target.fld, 'X'); CONVERT( @SM, '~', @); SUBR(
'-FIELDS', @, '~',1,1)
or
SUBR( '-FIELDS', CONVERT( @SM, '~', TRANS( file, mv.ids, mv.target.fld,
'X' )), '~', 1, 1 )
Explanation: Since FIELDS & the other multivalued handling subroutines
break things out by and other delimiters, you can't get it to act On the
delimiters themselves.
So convert the system-delimiter you are interested in (in your case
subvalue marks, I believe) to a not-system-delimiter that will not
appear in the data and act on that.
cds
P.S. I don't have UD, only UV, so I'll leave it to the UD gurus to
correct any subtle distinctions.
P.P.S.
I often find it useful for debugging purposes, to temporarilly cocnvert
alll the delimiters to visible characters, just to see what I'm dealing
with:
01: I
02: [some buggy multi-(sub)valued calc]
03: MD2
04:
05: 10R
06: M
temporarilly becomes
01: I
02: [some buggy multi-(sub)valued calc];CONVERT(
@IM:@AM:@VM:@SM:@TM,'iavst',@ )
03:
04:
05: 50L
06: S
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Kathy Tymoczko
Information Technology Services
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933
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