At 9:07 +0000 11/15/01, Jay Chandru wrote:
>(1)
>I want to check if a file exists, then execute a set of FCOPY commands and
>if it does not exist, execute another set of FCOPY commands. I want to
>achieve this in a single job. If i can, pls let me know.

At the MPE prompt do

  :help finfo

What you probably need to do in your job is something like

  !if finfo('YYY', 'exists')
  !   # do one set of commands
  !else
  !   # do something else
  !endif


>(2)
>Can i do substringing in a Job? If yes can u provide me an example.


Depends upon what you want to "substring", but most likely, yes.

At the MPE prompt do

  :help functions

That will give you a summary of all the CI expression evaluator functions,
among which is the STR fucntion, for general string extraction. For more
info on that do

  :help STR

Hope this helps!


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