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Hello all, happy new year!!

I am testing some control statements for Syncsort to learn the software.

I cannot for the life of me get my head around this simple piece of code:



When I run this it does not include the first line which I would expect it to.

What would I need to enter here in order for it to pick up on binary equaling 2?

I would have thought that 1,1 means starting in column one for a length of 1 would be one byte.

I would appreciate absolutely any advise on this.

Thank you so very much!!

The INCLUDE is only going to select anything if the first byte of one or more records contains the hexadecimal value 02 (X'02').

Thank you for your reply Billy.

I experimented and the EBCDIC letters STX is HEX 02, so when I change the include to 1,3 I thought it would have picked this up, but it didn't.



You can probably see my thinking is not correct here.

Thank you!!

X'02' is not equivalent to the three letters STX. In certain specific contexts X'02' would mean STX (start of character) but I doubt you'll ever need to know that (I don't know what those contexts are).

Put your editor into HEX mode, put 02 into the hex area made available (in position one) and run your code.

Hi Billy,

that is excellent, I did that and then it worked.

Thank you for the help, it is appreciated!!

STX is the code for 'Start of text," usually in the context of a data transmission using the now obsolete binary synchronous protocol. What we see here appears to be the character string STX, not X'02'.