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moke · Contributor Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 162

My brain is moving with the agility of a 3 legged Rhino on Valium today. I have used this command a kajillion times to retrieve the position of a string in a file. But today, it will only retrieve the position a single character not an entire string. I know the string is in the file.

%%P1 = @IO(FPOSC,C:\TEMP\JOBID.TXT,1,,H)
returns the the position of H

%%P1 = @IO(FPOSC,C:\TEMP\JOBID.TXT,1,,HOSTNAME)
returns 0

Any thoughts?

moke

moke · Contributor Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 162

Boy do i hate hidden binarys! Mad

Mac · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 10:27 pm Post subject:

Is FPOSC case sensitive?

Have you tried enclosing the search string in quotes?

Have you tried adding the end file byte to search?

Have ya closed and restarted VDS... Wink

Cheers, Mac Smile

moke · Contributor Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 162

Thanks for the reply Mac. Yeah, I did try all those. The problem ended up being that i cut and pasted a string from the file and the string was using invisible characters that were not represented. I switched to FPOSB and used 00 inbetween the binary equivalent of the letters of the string and that worked.

And in case your wondering, yes it did give me a headache. Smile