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From: brooking@mcnc.org (Jim Brooking)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Question about Parsing
Summary: One Possible Method
Message-ID: <7380@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 28 Nov 90 20:42:57 GMT
References: <9304@ncar.ucar.edu>
Organization: MCNC; RTP, NC
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In article <9304@ncar.ucar.edu>, tparker@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker) writes:
>  
> But I can't find how to use a NUMERIC pattern in a variable.  For
> example, I might want to break a string at a specific column determined
> by the program.  Simplistic example:
>  
>          column = 4
>          parse value 'dog/cat' with word1 (column) word2
>  
> will use '4' as a string pattern, rather than as a number pattern.
>
This seems to do the job:

	/* Parse something with a variable column */
	
	col = 4
	xyz = 12345678

	z = "parse var xyz var1" col "varn"

	interpret z
	say var1 varn
  
At least it works on uniREXX; I don't have a CMS account at the moment.

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