> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Gilmore > > You have a response that apparently meets your needs. > > Your question interests me for another reason. I asked two admittedly very bright 15 year olds to > write a parameterized--a value V, a field of length L, and a one-origin offset O of its first byte-- > PL/I procedure to do what you want to do. > > It took them 10 and 13 minutes, respectively, to come up with correct, working procedures complete > with bullet proofing and test cases. > > The use of the SORT to do this job seems to me to be much akin to using a piledriver to set a ten- > penny nail., and I should be interested to know why you sought a canned solution to a problem of this > sort.
"Everybody" has a SORT utility. Not everybody has a [PL/I|other HLL] compiler. -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html