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Re: Joining two files in rexx

 
santum
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Joining two files in rexx

I have to create one map(say MAP 1) taking map 2 and map 3 as input and join them to create the map 1 in REXX.
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Steven Schweda
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Re: Joining two files in rexx

VMS is different from MVS, and it's not
Windows, either. Are you in the right forum?
Andy Bustamante
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Re: Joining two files in rexx

Are you working with Fidelity's RE/X?

Andy
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Hein van den Heuvel
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Re: Joining two files in rexx

Santum,

You are probably submitting this question to the wrong forum. Please elaborate as to what rexx might stand for. What platform, what tool, and if you care about a solution, what specific join requirements (sort order, duplicates,...).

Is this pertaining a windows style ini file a per:

http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=525&ScriptType=rexx


If so, I suspect your best bet is to simply use an editor to manually merge.

If I were to write a script to do this then I woudl use perl and exploit 'Hash of Arrays' to name each group and add line to those group. I don't know what you should do with dups (retain first, last, both?)

See for example: http://www.ayni.com/perldoc/perl5.8.0/pod/perldsc.html


Sample perl solution:

------------------------ test.pl ---------
while ($file = shift) {
open FILE, "<$file" or die "Could not open file $file";
$key = " ";
push @{ $HoA{$key} }, "\n/* Entries from $file */\n";

while () {
if (/^\[\w+\]$/) {
$key = $_;
push @{ $HoA{$key} }, "\n/* Entries from $file */\n";
} else {
push @{ $HoA{$key} }, $_;
}
}
}

foreach $key (sort keys %HoA) {
print "$key\n", join ("", @{$HoA{$key}}), "\n";
}

----------

Sample usage

perl test.pl map2.ini map3.ini > map1.ini


The above script adds traces to show whre sections came from. Without that it could read:
------------------------ test.pl ----------
while ($file = shift) {
open FILE, "<$file" or die "Could not open file $file";
$key = " ";
while () {
if (/^\[\w+\]$/) {
$key = $_;
} else {
push @{ $HoA{$key} }, $_;
}
}
}

foreach $key (sort keys %HoA) {
print "$key", @{$HoA{$key}};
}
Nyle Davis
New Member

Re: Joining two files in rexx

S,

Which version of REXX are you using. Code will very by version.
Nyle Davis
New Member

Re: Joining two files in rexx

S,

A sample in OO-REXX would be:

files = "file1 file2"; z=0
do n=1 to words(files)
curfil = word(files,n)
rc = SysFileTree(curfil, 'inpfil', 'FO')
if rc = 0 & inpfil.0 > 0 then do xx = 1 to inpfil.0
ReadFile = .stream~new(inpfil.xx)
ReadFile~open("READ")
do while ReadFile~lines() > 0
z = z + 1
oline.z = strip(ReadFile~linein)
end /* end do do while */
ReadFile~close
end /* end if rc=0 */
end /* end do n=1 */
WFile = .stream~new(outfil)
WFile~open("WRITE")
do y =1 to z
WFile~lineout(oline.y,y)
end /* end do n= */
WFile~close

If you are on mainframe "linein" and "lineout" still work, but syntax is diff and you have to load the file via "EXECIO" on some systems.