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Dibakar · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:31 am Post subject: sequence number using edit macro

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to get sequence numbers of lines of a file opened in edit mode. I tried various commands but all are returning line number (which starts from 1) instead of sequence number (which generally starts from 100).

Diba.

bob_buxton · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:40 am Post subject:

ISREDIT NUMBER ON STD and/or COBOL turns on sequence numbering
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Dibakar · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 7:02 am Post subject:

Bob,

My requirement is different. Suppose I search and find a string 'CCERR' then I want to return the sequence number corresponding to the line containing 'CCERR'. But at present I am only able to return line number and not the sequence number.

For example, in the current screen I would like to return 48, instead of 11.

semigeezer · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:52 am Post subject:

NUM OFF will let you access the sequence numbers; LINE (var) = ... will capture all 80 bytes. If you are using ISPF to automatically update the line numbers and it sounds like you are, remember to turn NUM ON when you are done.

Dibakar · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:12 am Post subject:

Thanks semigeezer,

It worked.

I don't want to update numbers but just tell user which line contains a particular string. So, to get rid of initial setting, I had to do NUM ON then NUM OFF then again NUM ON. This might change numbering but that is okay with my requirements.

Diba