Date:         Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:06:08 -0800
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From:         Bruce Bradbury <BruceBrad@INAME.COM>
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Subject:      Re: Replacing variable names in text
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> There is no need to "prime the pump" the value assigned to the INFILE
> variable associated with the LENGTH option is the value for the line
> that is being read.

Thanks. I was following an example in the manual, but I see now that
they needed to do some computation on the length which I don't.

> I'm not sure I completely understand your needs but a regular
> expression may be more useful than TRANWRD. Do RXCHANGE when the
> target is found in the line.  Consider the following.

Thanks for this example. I'll come back to it one day when I need a
more flexible approach.