Use can also pipe the record into a variable and parse what you want out.

Olav.

Francois Desrochers wrote:

>Mike,
>
>The SUBSET option is used to select records by record numbers or strings in certain columns but you cannot select parts of records. It always works on complete records. You have to use other tools such as Suprtool, Qedit, Editor, Quad, Posix "cut" to extract columns.
>
>Thanks...François
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>I thought there was an option to fcopy part of a record.
>If the record contains TODAY IS MONDAY and you want only columns 10-12, I thought there was an FCOPY subset option that would result in just the characters in those positions (MON).
>Am I halucinating.
>mike
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