This works pretty good. There shouldn't be multiple APPLES, but if there is it is OK to add 1 ORANGES for each APPLES. But how do I get the ORANGES to get inserted BEFORE apples? 'PIPE < TEST FILE A', '|XXX: IF LOCATE /APPLES/ ', '|SPECS 1-* 1 WRITE /ORANGES/ 1', '|XXX: ', '|> NEW FILE A'
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hughes, Jim - OIT Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:55 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Realy simple pipe insert ? Hi Don, I never pay attention to details. Please read my signature tagline. ____________________________ 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 =>-----Original Message----- =>From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On =>Behalf Of Don Russell =>Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:48 PM =>To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU =>Subject: Re: Realy simple pipe insert ? => =>The original request said they wanted to insert *a* record into the =>stream... Your suggestion will insert a record for each record read from =>the file that contains APPLES. resulting in a file of lines containing =>APPLES,separated by lines of ORANGES. => =>'PIPE < test file a |', =>'locate /APPLES/|', =>'strliteral /ORANGES/|', =>'> new file a' => =>Will result in a "new file a" with one record more than the count of =>'APPLES' records found. =>The first record of the new file will be ORANGES... if you want it to be =>the last, use APPEND STRLITERAL... => =>Don Russell =>> __________________________________________________________________ << 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