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@Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:47:59 -0500
Subject: Re: REXX - Parse or SubStr ??
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In, on 10/29/03 
   at 11:37 AM, "Don[ald] O.
Woodall" typed:

>     I have a string, varying lengths, of course, with no
>spaces in it.  It is delimited with ";" semicolons.

>     The name of the string is:  szsetupstring.

>     I would like to break it up into: property01 ... property??

You don't state how you want to format the file, which would make a
difference.

One item per line?

Separated by spaces?
 
Other?

In any event, you can either use

x=pos(';',string)

p1 = left(string,x-1)
string=substr(string,x+1)

looping until you don't have any more ;

or iterate a parse statement of the form:

parse var string p1 ';' string


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