On 1/7/2016 7:16 AM, Tom Marchant wrote:
I like Robert Rosenberg's solution: sort the file on the first two columns and look for a suitable gap in the sorted data.Probably a lot quicker than your checklist.
Indeed. That would have been much quicker. But, what if no suitable delimiter can be found? Then you're SOL! :(
It would be nice if JCL supported DLM='an arbitrary-length delimiter string similar to what is done for denoting email attachments'.
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