This works for me. Newname = ''
'PIPE FILERAND TOM222 PLI A 1-10', '| FIND --CATAL= ', '| TAKE FIRST 1', '| SPECS 9.9 1', '| STRIP', '| VAR NEWNAME tracking' ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about." John von Neumann ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:17 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Simple PIPE ? I think this should be really simple, but the brain doesn't seem to be working this morning. I have this little pipe, and the last stage is '|VAR NEWNAME'. How can a be sure NEWNAME is being set to '' (null) if nothing makes it that far through the pipe? 'PIPE FILERAND TOM222 PLI A 1-10', '| FIND --CATAL= ', '| TAKE FIRST 1', '| SPECS 9.9 1', '| STRIP', '| VAR NEWNAME' Thanks. __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed VSE-List messages and set aside VM-List for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
