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cobol >> Extract a piece of information from a txt file

by TekSoft » Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:07:00 GMT

Hi,
I've a txt file with several lines with not fixed length and I use
PowerCobol v7.
I want to extract a number between this character "@" and "\n" (carriage
return/line feed). For example:

4555599544455.455565@555555
XXXX@XXXXX.COM @60.398 >> this is it
1144@555555@58588888888888888@89898

and I want to extract this number "60.398" from the second line. I can I do
it?

Thanks
JM
Euromercante



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cobol >> Extract a piece of information from a txt file

by Frederico Fonseca » Sat, 19 Jun 2004 05:02:01 GMT





Use the unstring statement with a delimiter of "@".

e.g.
unstring fieldx delimited by all "@"
into field1, field2, field3, field4

On the above case result would be

line 1
field1 4555599544455.455565
field2 555555

Line 2
field1 XXXX@XXXXX.COM
field2 60.398

Line 3
field1 1144
field2 555555
field3 58588888888888888
field4 89898




Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com


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