'MCP':@VM:'G.1' is the exact answer your exact question of what can replace 'WHATEVER' in your code.
The complete code becomes VAR1 = 'SAM':@VM:'TRUDY' CRT OCONV(VAR1,'MCP':@VM:'G.1') This answer will work as long as there aren't any real periods in VAR1. In the 2nd argument, you can stack successively executed conversion codes separated by value marks. Each acts on the output of the previous conversion. So above, the first conversion, "MCP", changes thevalue mark to a period. The second, "G.1" extracts the 1st group deliminated by periods. This also explains why OCONV(VAR1, 'G':@VM:'1') doesn't work. OCONV does not care about system delimiters in the 1st argument. It acts on the entire string. OCONVS (with an "S") does care. ICONV & ICONVS make the same distinction. People have mentioned the obvious dump of OCONV for just VAR1<1,1>, but I asssume you've just condensed some complicated real-world problem down to a simplistic case. Chuck -----Original Message----- From: D VAR1 = 'SAM':@VM:'TRUDY' CRT OCONV(VAR1,'WHATEVER') What replaces WHATEVER, so that I can see the value "SAM"? I cannot find in the documentation or remember for that matter how to extract a single value using the OCONV function. Thanks in advance, Doug ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
