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

[pwinter303]

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.

[PGStats · Accepted solution]

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));