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Split a field and place head into one and tail into a different one

Former Member

‎11-01-2007 3:21 PM

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Hi,

What I want to do is search a field (contains string) for '/' and anything before the '/' goes into one field and anything after '/' goes into another.

Do I want to use the split syntax?

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Former Member

‎11-01-2007 3:24 PM

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Yes

SPLIT var at '/' into head tail.

You can use .

Regards

Nishant

Former Member

‎11-01-2007 3:26 PM

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DATA : names type char10 value 'sss/rrr',
       name1 type char10,
       name2 type char10,
       DELIM type char1 value '/'.


SPLIT NAMES AT DELIM INTO name1 name2.