[MAYBE SPAM] RE: Character replace in Quiz

[Chris Sharman]

> <robert.mills@windsong-services.co.uk> wrote:
>>Environment: Quiz 8.39.C running on MPE/iX 6.5
>>
>>I have a char*30 source field that may contain any
>>number of semi-colons which I need to replace with
>>spaces. Any advice on the most efficient way of
>>doing this?

There's always PACK: "removes leading & trailing commas & semicolons, 
and removes leading spaces from words that begin with comma, period, 
colon, or semicolon".

Whether that's any use to you depends on what else is in the data, and 
what you need to do with it.

def nosemisorcommas char*30 = &
pack(data[1:2])+pack(data[3:2])+pack(data[5:2])+&
...

Unfortunately that turns ";ABC;DEF" into "A BCD EF", so more thought 
needed. There's also the simple approach of index and substrings, which 
is pretty tedious, but possible if you think you can get away with 
assuming less than 5 or 6 semicolons or so.

Chris


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