It’s not clear what that statement is supposed to do. The program won’t compile unless the outer quotes are removed.

Then, it’s not clear what your problem is. If the above source line is corrected, the program works.

here i want search only ‘ITE’ string

That is what the program does. In both tests, it scans for ‘ITE’ and finds it both times. The DSPLY executes for both tests.

The program seems to work exactly as you say you want it to work. What is the problem?

Tom

DiSTRNG s 50 varying inz
D#strng s 50 inz(‘ITE’)
D#num s 2 0
c
“c eval istrng=’Blank Descriptions,ITEM Invalid’”
c if %scan(%trim(#strng):istrng)<>0
c iSTRNG dsply
c endif
11/3/2007
c* eval #num=%check((istrng):(#strng))
c eval #num=%check(%trim(#strng):%trim(istrng))
c if #num>0
c* if %check(%trim(#strng):%trim(istrng))<>0
c iSTRNG dsply
c endif
c eval *inlr=*on

That’s what it’s supposed to do. “ITEM” contains “ITE”, so it is a correct result.

ITERATE
CITE
WHITE
ARBITER

All of those contain “ITE”, so the scan functions will find “ITE” in all of them. Further, they can all be at the beginning, at the end or in the middle of a string or might be the entire string. There might be no blanks before or after the word. There might even be special characters instead of blanks:

(ARBITER)
WHITE–

And how about “Item”?

If you want to discard those results, then you need to program around it. There are a number of possible combinations. We have no idea what circumstances you might run into.

Tom

say if i need 321 it should not give me 3210 nor 1321 it should only give me line containing string 321