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Priya
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Hi,

User is passing values for a variable in the format below :
ADD DASF','ADD DASF Core','ADD DASF SSO

I need to convert it to the format:
ADD DASF;ADD DASF Core;ADD DASF SSO
(Any delimiter is fine)

Basically I want to replace ',' with ; .
Assuming that the format is some thing like this
ADD DASF;ADD DASF Core;ADD DASF SSO
I am able to fetch the individual values (ADD DASF , ADD DASF Core , ADD DASF SSO) based on the delimiter using the functions POSIT and SUBSTR and pass it on to my query.
But I am struck at the first step of replacing "','" with ";". I tried strrep also. But it din't work out for me.
Please let me know how I can accomplish this conversion.

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Alan B
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STRREP would be correct. However the single quotes cause an issue, so use 2 or 3 single quotes depending what you are trying to achieve. 2 for SETting a field, 3 in STRREP:
-SET &STRING = 'ADD DASF'',''ADD DASF Core'',''ADD DASF SSO';
-TYPE &STRING
-SET &STR_LEN = &STRING.LENGTH;
-SET &STRING = STRREP(&STR_LEN,&STRING,3,''',''',1,';',&STR_LEN,'A&STR_LEN.EVAL');
-TYPE &STRING


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Ram Prasad E
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Priya, Try CTRAN function to convert , to ;.
-SET &OUT_STRING=CTRAN(1024,&IN_STRING,44,59,'A1024');


44- decimal equivalent of ,
59- decimal equivalent of ;

To find decimal equivalent of any character in windows use CHARMAP from RUN prompt and use CALC to convert hex to decimal.

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Francis Mariani
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You can use CTRAN without having to figure out the Hex value (which is different for ASCII and EBCDIC) by incorporating BYTVAL into the code:

CTRAN(inlen, infield, BYTVAL('from','I3'), BYTVAL('to','I3'), output)

eg:

-*-- Convert Apostrophe to Right Single Quotation Mark -------------------------
-SET &OBJ_NAME4 = 
-  CTRAN(&OBJ_NAME.LENGTH, &OBJ_NAME, BYTVAL('''','I3'), BYTVAL('’','I3'), 'A&OBJ_NAME.LENGTH');


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njsden
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Nice! I had not found any useful example illustrating the use of BYTVAL before.


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