Pattern Help

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

OK, I give up today. I even made a typo on typo. Time to go home.

Enough fooling around with patterns :-)

How about leaving the original pattern on the field statement and putting
the check of the first character in the edit procedure? This would probably
be clearer to the next poor sole who has to decipher the pattern.

procedure edit somefield
begin
  if "M" = somefield of somefile or &
     "C" = somefield of somefile 
  then error "Somefield must not start with M or C."
end

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Pickering, John (NORBORD) [SMTP:PICKERIJ@norbord.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:30 PM
> To:	'Richard Sheehan'; Sarah Moore; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject:	RE: Pattern Help
> 
> Even after I corrected my obvious type it doesn't work :-(
> 
> Q U I Z   (PowerHouse  8.19.C4)
> Copyright 1999 COGNOS INCORPORATED
> Norbord Industries Inc.
> 
> > def d-test char*6 = parm
> > edit d-test pattern "\(M|C|\^)#####"
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> *W* An invalid pattern was used to edit an execution-time parameter.
> > 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Pickering, John (NORBORD) [SMTP:PICKERIJ@norbord.com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:04 PM
> > To:	'Richard Sheehan'; Sarah Moore; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> > Subject:	RE: Pattern Help
> > 
> > How about "\(M|C||^)#####" 
> > 
> > Yours will allow 6 digits
> > 
> <snip>
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