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OnQuest
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Hello, I am trying to DECODE a variable that has values containing special characters:
 
VAR1/A20V = DECODE COLUMN1 ( 'VALUE1' '1VAL1'
                             'VÄLUE2' 'VÄL2'
                           ELSE 'XX');

the value2 gets decoded as 'XX'. Any ideas how to handle this?
Thanks !

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Posts: 15 | Registered: March 11, 2009Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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It probably has something to do with the code page used in WebFOCUS.

I have mine set "137 – Western European" or "137 – U.S. English" on the WebFOCUS Client. The client code page change can be made via the WebFOCUS Administrator Console 
http://server-name:port/ibi_apps/console/webfocusconsole.jsp


I have the WebFOCUS Server set to "137 – U.S. English/Western Europe (Latin 1)". The server code page change can be made via the WebFOCUS Server Console 
http://server-name:port/webconsole/webconsole


This fex:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COMPUTE COLUMN1/A10 =
IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' THEN 'VALUE1' ELSE
IF COUNTRY EQ 'W GERMANY' THEN 'VÄLUE2' ELSE COUNTRY;

COMPUTE VAR1/A20V = DECODE COLUMN1(
'VALUE1' '1VAL1'
'VÄLUE2' 'VÄL2'
ELSE 'XX');
END
yields the correct results:
COLUMN1 VAR1 
VALUE1  1VAL1 
JAPAN   XX 
ITALY   XX 
VÄLUE2  VÄL2 
FRANCE  XX


Francis


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OnQuest
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I am going to check with our admin team about the client and server code page settings. Meanwhile, I abandoned the DECODE and used a IF THEN ELSE construct with pattern matching (used LIKE 'text%') and it works in my situation because the occurences of a value was limited to 1 for each set of conditions in the IF.

Thanks!


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