dynamic length String manipulation

[Former Member]

Hi Folks,

I want to get a variable which contains '*'.

But length will decide dynamically.

Can anyone help me in this?

length = strlen (input) - 4.

do length times

concatnate length '*' into mask.

enddo.

But here i want to have '*' marks length times in mask.

Thanks in advance.

Rgds

Bhavani

[Former Member]

Try this

data test(30)

data num type i.

num = 5.

clear test(num) with '*'.

write test.

Cheers.

[Former Member]

hi,

i don't know whether i understannd your probs

data mask(100) type c.

length = strlen (input) - 4.

clear mask.

do length times

concatnate mask '*' into mask.

enddo.

cheers,

sasi

[Former Member]

Hi Sasi,

I tried the same, but not working.

By end of stmt it is having only one '*'.

It should contain length number of times the '*'.

Thanks

Bhavani

[Former Member]

Did you try this

<b>data mask(100) type c.

length = strleninput) - 4.

clear mask(length) with '*'.</b>

Check in debugging if length has correct value.

cheers.

[Former Member]

hi

this should work,

check your variable length (mask)

data mask(100) type c.

data length type i value 10.

clear mask.

do length times.

concatenate mask '*' into mask.

enddo.

cheers,

sasi

[Former Member]

Sanjay,

In debugging it is taking only 1 char length.

Cheers

[Former Member]

Hi

try this

data mask(100) type c.

data pos type i.

length = strlen (input) - 4.

clear mask.

do length times.

write '*' to mask+pos(1).

pos = pos + 1.

enddo.

Max

[Former Member]

So then the problem is with

length = strlen (input) - 4.

Check what is the value in length after this staement .

Cheers.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The code given by sasi is working correctly. when you are saying that "<i>By end of stmt it is having only one ''.It should contain length number of times the ''.</i>", did you check the value of LENGTH?

Thanks,

Rajeev

[Former Member]

for dynamic length use a string type variable

try this code...

data : t1 type string.

str type c.

str = '*'.

do length times. "length is your calculated variable

concatenate t1 str into t1.

enddo.

write 😕 t1.

rgds,

PJ