Does doubling the slash help?  "//PRD"

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bob Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm in Unidata 6.1 and I'm trying to find a way to use a multi character
> value as a delimiter for a parsing function in an I-desc dict item.  I'm
> working with Bartender label data records and I'm trying to parse the
> first line on the "/PRN=" value, without the quote marks.  FIELD only
> lets me use a single character.
>
> What I have so far in the DICT item is:
> 001: I
> 002: F1;FIELD(@1,'PRN=',2);FIELD(@2,'"',2)
> 003:
> 004: PRN
> 005: 15L
> 006: S
>
> This works great until a capital P is in the label name before the PRN.
> Field is taking the first character and ignoring the RN=.  I do NOT want
> to make a subroutine if I can avoid it.  I've tried using CHANGE to swap
> out PRN= with a single character but apparently that's not an allowed
> command in the DICT items.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> BobW
>
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