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from: Mike O`Connor
date: 2004-10-05 20:42:00
subject: Re: REXX - So Simple = Extremely Hard

Julian Thomas wrote:

>In, on 10/05/04 
>   at 04:30 PM, "Don{ald} O.
Woodall" typed:
>
>>:\DOWNLOAD\Back-Again2\backagain2000ws\210b
>>      H:\DOWNLOAD\Back-Again2\backagain2000ws\210c
>>    
>>
>>    The ultimate, final goal of the program is to change the above
>>string to:
>>          md DOWNLOAD\Back-Again2\backagain2000ws\210b
>>    
>>
[he meant to have had :

    md DOWNLOAD\BACK-AGAIN2\BACKAGAIN2000WS\210b]


>do while lines(infile)>0
>     x=linein(infile)
>     z=pos("\",x)
>     y="md "||substr(x,z+1)
>     call lineout outfile,y
>     end
>
>Should be the gist of it with the appropriate wrappers to open and
close files, etc.  No template needed. 
>  
>

Hi Julian,

Offlist I sent Don a skeleton of the routine to modify his "string", 
knowing in advance that he wanted to convert the filename to lower-case 
and the balance of the variable# of components in the fully-qualified 
filespec to upper-case.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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