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Hi all,

My requirement is like this:

i am searhing for a string in a member. And i got the starting postion of that string into a variable S. Now from the starting postion i want to read the characters till the end of the line. Is there any way to do this.

For example:

My search string is abc. so in 5 lines i am going to search for this string.

hhhhhhhh
yyyyyyyyyy
bbbbbbbbbbbb
rrrtrtabctyuttt
ttyyuuuiiiooo

so my search string is there in 4th line and starting position of a in abc is 7 which is present in S. So using this starting postion can i just pull abctyuttt to a variable and display the value.

Can any one help me in achieving this. Please let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks.

Once you know the position of the search string within the entire string, you can just use a PARSE command to extract the data.

Some other options would be to use SUBSTR or RIGHT.

hi,

Can you please tell me how do i parse it.. i mean i want to know the syntax
would parse pull work?

Thanks.

Hi,

Thank you. I made it work. Thanks for your suggestions.

Thanks.

You can find the details on parsing here.

Thank you Spock.. :-)