JCL for searching string after nth occurence of delimiter

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sheroff
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JCL for searching string after nth occurence of delimiter

Post by sheroff » Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:09 pm

Hi All,

I am new to JCL ,request you all to provide me the JCl for my problem. My query is as follow:-
Reading from a file of length 80 having ; as delimiter. I have to search for two things
1)A variable (string ) as ABCD after 10th occurence of ; delimiter and
2)After 11th occurence of ; delimiter if the variable is XYZ

Then the output ,matching condition 1 & 2 should be moved into another file.

Input file for reference be :-

A; dd; 44; 1; 2; 3; 4; 4; 3; 3;ABCD; XYZ; 1222; QW
GH;A; g; f; g; 5; 3; 4; 5; 3; 5; 332; 44; 332
QW; SD; 23; DDF; WW; 1; 1; 1; 1;3; ABCD; XYZ; 1; W

Output file should be
A; dd; 44; 1; 2; 3; 4; 4; 3; 3;ABCD; XYZ; 1222; QW
QW; SD; 23; DDF; WW; 1; 1; 1; 1;3; ABCD; XYZ; 1; W

Thanks in advance
Sheroff

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Post by NicC » Fri Dec 26, 2014 6:26 pm

JCL cannot do this - you need a program/utility program. Programs are not JCL, nor are program control cards. The JCL used to tell the OS what program you want to use will depend on the requirements of the program.
Regards
Nic

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