String replace method in RPG IV

Question

In RPG IV how can I take a string and eliminate all instances of a character in specific or replace them with another one ?. This is kind of like string replace built in methods in other programmnig languages. Ex: take 021-123450-23-4 and covert to 021123450234

Answer 1

Take a look at the following articles:

• http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg030409-story01.html
• http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg022509-story01.html

These should help.

Answer 2

To remove all hyphens:

new_string = %XLATE( string, '-', '' );

To replace all hyphens with ampersand:

new_string = %XLATE( string, '-', '&' );

If you want to replace more than a single character then you're going to have to roll your own function/code as described in the articles Mike Wills pointed to.