You have a response that apparently meets your needs. Your question interests me for another reason. I asked two admittedly very bright 15 year olds to write a parameterized--a value V, a field of length L, and a one-origin offset O of its first byte--PL/I procedure to do what you want to do.
It took them 10 and 13 minutes, respectively, to come up with correct, working procedures complete with bullet proofing and test cases. The use of the SORT to do this job seems to me to be much akin to using a piledriver to set a ten-penny nail., and I should be interested to know why you sought a canned solution to a problem of this sort. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
