"JOIN" was good, it just didn't go far enough :-) Regards, Richard Schuh
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:21 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: More simple REXX/PIPES Perfect Richard.. My brain was stuck on 'JOIN *' Now it all fits. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:08 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: More simple REXX/PIPES Will "Join keylength 2" work? Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:58 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: More simple REXX/PIPES This shouldn't be very hard, but I seem to be a little slow today.. can't find my Geritol. I can do this with a bunch of 'IF''s and 'DO's but I was looking for something prettier. REXX or a PIPE, it doesn't matter. I have input that looks like this: 01 data-a 01 data-b 01 data-c 01 data-d 02 data-a 02 data-b 02 data-c 02 data-d . . 99 data-x . xx data-a is always unique. I want to create a variable that looks something like this: X.01 data-a data-b data-c data-d X.02 data-a data-b data-c data-c or since data-a is unique I could name the variable data-a and have data-b data-c data-d in the var... then I'd have to keep track of all of the names (data-a). Anyone see a super simple way to do this with pretty code?