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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 11, 2024

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Clean string of control/unprintable characters < x'40'

Please either create a new BIF, or, supply a new, special value for the first parm of %scanrpl, that will replace all "unprintable", or control, characters in a string with a specified string. An unprintable, or control, character is any character less than x'40'.


MyText = %scanrpl(*control: ' ': MyText); // replace all control characters with a space

MyText = %scanrpl(*control: '?': MyText); // replace all control characters with a '?'

MyText = %rplctl('*': MyText [:start :end :charcount_option]); // replace all control characters with a '*', new BIF

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2024

    You mention using %list as the first parm to %scanrpl. Could you also use %range there?

    So something like

    MyText = %scanrpl(%range(x'01':x'39'): '?': MyText);

    Would give the same result as the proposed *control.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 10, 2024
    IBM will use this Idea as input to planning, but no commitment is made or implied. This Idea will be updated in the future if IBM implements it. IBM will use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this Idea.

    However, if this Idea is implemented, it would likely be a more general enhancement to support %LIST or an array as the first operand of %SCANRPL, rather than supporting a special list like *CONTROL for control characters.

    -IBM Power Systems Development
  • Guest
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    |     May 8, 2024

    see and vote https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4074

    for a more general solution to this issues

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