good spot ... There is the "last message in the group" flag so you can scan the file forwards
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 11:08, kekronbekron < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Colin, > > What about the first char, the one that indicates if it's the start of a > multi-line, etc. > That can be used, right? > > - KB > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Friday, January 7th, 2022 at 4:06 PM, Colin Paice < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Before I retired, I had some rexx code that took syslog, worked from the > > > > bottom upwards, and rebuild syslog so there was one line (sometimes a > very > > > > long line) per message. > > > > you have to work from the bottom and work up, because you cannot tell if > > > > you work down, if a message has multiple lines. > > > > This might help you with your problem > > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 08:39, Jason Cai [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > There are many dates and times in the input. > > > > > > Please see it below > > > > > > input > > > ===== > > > > > > 06/28/2018 2018.17 AAAAAA 18:07:46.51 > > > > > > BBBBBB 06/28/2019 16:07:46.50 > > > ==================================================================== > > > > > > The issue is that the position of date and time isn't fixed. > > > > > > at the same time, the value of time and date is variable. > > > > > > We hope to use dfsort to replace these dates and times with BLANK to > get > > > > > > the following output. > > > > > > output > > > ====== > > > > > > AAAAAA > > > > > > > > > BBBBBB > > > ====== > > > > > > We are migrating z/OS from 2.2 to 2.3 . > > > > > > Any suggestions are highly appreciated! > > > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > > > Jason Cai > > > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
