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.
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));
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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