I seriously doubt that he meant for the file name to be a constant.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 04:32:43 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Absent a problem description, there's no way to tell whether that does what >the OP wants; does he want to treat the last word containing a period as >fn.fext, or the fourth word? Does he want to allow multiple periods in the >name, e.g., foo.bar.text? I could write a regex for any of these, but not >without knowing which, if any, of them is correct. > He said only, "I wanted to parse out the string 'word3' using the period as a place holder." So, how about: trace R myVar = 'word1 word2 9.12 word3.ext' Parse Var myVar . 'word3' +0 myVal +5 . 2 *-* myVar = 'word1 word2 9.12 word3.ext' >=> "word1 word2 9.12 word3.ext" 3 *-* Parse Var myVar . 'word3' +0 myVal +5 . >V> "word1 word2 9.12 word3.ext" >.> "word1 word2 9.12 " >>> "word3" >.> ".ext" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
