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Hi,

"Please correct me wherever i'm wrong"

I'm Trying to parse an variable record where my records are having "start" keyword or "end" keyword or both.
if my record is having "start" keyword i need the data only after that keyword.
if my record is having "end" keyword i need the data only before that keyword.
if my record is having both "start" and "end" keyword i need the data in between "start" and "end".
if there is none of the keyword is present i want to skip that record.





This is what i tried but am getting all the records.. since i'm using option copy it is giving me all the records(?).. i don't know how to filter first then apply the parse.
edited to align the content to the correction made by the ts

sorry

if my record is having "start" keyword i need the data only before that keyword.

it is
if my record is having "end" keyword i need the data only before that keyword.

Use an INCLUDE for "start" and "end" to get rid of the records you don't want. I've done some looking at the PARSE options but haven't found any set of them that generates what you want.

Thanks Robert.
And i failed to mention that the position of the keywords may change in every record.. It is not fixed.. I need to mention the field position for using include right?

Not if you use SS:where you change <record length> to the appropriate value.

Hello,

Can you please show the representational input data and expected output for the conditions you've mentioned?

Thank you.