Read data till a particular position in REXX.

Rexx · Post by **Rexx** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:17 am

Hi,

I have a dataset of length 132. For a requirement, I want to read the contents only upto 80th column from it. Is there anyway to do it using ISPF edit macros/REXX?

Post by **enrico-sorichetti** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:54 am

since zOS I/O is record oriented every read will return a full record
then You are free to process as many bytes as You need

Post by **Anuj Dhawan** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:10 pm

I'm not a REXX expert however, can substring() be of some use here, no - Enrico?

Post by **enrico-sorichetti** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:39 pm

Yes Anuj,

but ...
a generic question just deserves a technically correct but generic answer

really these questions make me wonder if the TS has ever read a manual on the subject

Rexx1 · Post by **Rexx1** » Sun May 17, 2015 6:37 pm

Thanks substring() has helped me.

Post by **Anuj Dhawan** » Mon May 18, 2015 3:14 pm

Thanks for the feedback - good luck.

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