Join two stem variables?

[vsiano]

hello,
i have 2 stem variables i would like to join into 1 large one. dataA. and dataB. to create dataALL.

is there a way to do this without looping?

thanks,
val

 

[rexxhead]

There's no native way to do this, but looping will be lightning fast.

Why don't you want to do this in a loop?

Frank Clarke
--Now officially with no one I can vote for in '08...

 

[carlosreimer]

Hi Val,

You can do it using the PIPE command. Like this example:

/* */
a.1='a1'
a.2='a2'
a.0=2
b.1='b1'
b.2='b2'
b.0=2
'pipe stem a. | append stem b. | stem c.'
say c.0
do i=1 to c.0
say c.i
end

Stem c. is the concatenation of a. and b.

 

[JeffQuade]

Under straight z/OS you can do this like so:

do i=1 to dataA.0
dataAll.i = dataA.i
end

do j=1 to dataB.0
i=j+dataA.0
dataAll.i = dataB.j
end

dataAll.0 = dataA.0 + dataB.0