How Do I Specify Beginning of Line in PRXCHANGE on the Mainframe. No Caret

pwinter303 — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:56:09 GMT

The mainframe does not support the caret symbol ^ (shift 6).

It treats it as an unprintable character.

The caret symbol is used to represent the beginning of a line in the SAS/PERL RegEx.

For example.. the code below says: find 1- in the first position in the line/field.

DAY_FINAL = PRXCHANGE('S/^1-//',1,DAYTIME_PHONE);

Does anyone know how to represent the beginning of the line in a mainframe environment?

Thanks so much for any help.

Re: How Do I Specify Beginning of Line in PRXCHANGE on the Mainframe. No Caret

PGStats — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 19:15:12 GMT

There must be a way to get the mainframe to accept/transmit a "^" character. Otherwise, you could put a special character at the beginning of the string :

DAY_FINAL = PRXCHANGE('S/@1-//',1,cats("@",DAYTIME_PHONE));

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How Do I Specify Beginning of Line in PRXCHANGE on the Mainframe. No Caret

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