js@UW-JUNE.ARPA (A. K. Ulgai) (08/29/86)
Would anyone care to explain to me how you can parse a command
such as SORT/KEY=(pos:1,siz:20)/KEY=(pos:30,siz:10) ? Using
CLI$GET_VALUE always returns the last KEY qualifier on the line,
whereas I'd like to get both KEY qualifiers. The only way I've come
up with so far is to get the entire line (CLI$GET_VALUE('$LINE',line))
and parse it myself... Surely there must be a simpler way...
I'd rather not have to build up a cli request block and call SYS$CLI
since it's undocumented, unless someone would reassure me that the
cli interface won't change drastically for a while.. If anyone has
sample code, or just a decent explanation of sys$cli I'd love to see
it...
Any ideas/hints welcome, and thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Joe Meadows Jr. js@uw-june