RE: MOVE/MOVEL and %Scan

I think he may be thinking of the old *VARCHAR option on the RPGIII and
early RPGIV compilers.

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of bmorris@ca.ibm.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: MOVE/MOVEL and %Scan
>
>
> >Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 03:53:52 -0500
> >From: "Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@merck.com>
> >
> >I guess I once tested MOVEL on a VARYING field, and got the result
that it
> >also overwrote the first two bytes containing the length of the
VARYING
> >field ?  Has this ever been the case, or is my memory really failing
?
> > ...
>
> I don't recall that ever being the case, but my memory may be failing.
> Maybe you're recalling a problem with the debugger - it didn't handle
> varying fields very well, at first.
>
> >I also encountered another issue that seems to be running fine now ?
In
> the
> >past when I was doing a %Scan and the search argument was bigger than
the
> >actual VARYING string, the program crashed.  If I now try this...
> everything
> >goes fine (and it returns 0... as it should be in my opinion).
Again, am
> I
> >getting old ?
>
> Paul, you remember correctly.  This is one of the changes listed in
the
> "What's new in this release" section of the V5R1 ILE RPG Programmer's
> Guide.
> Point 4 in Other enhancements: "The search string in a %SCAN operation
> can now be longer than string being searched. (The string will not be
> found, but this will no longer generate an error condition.)"  It was
> your question about this behaviour, maybe on this mailing list, that
> prompted the change.
>
>
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0925073
07.htm
> #HDRRELV5R1
>
> Barbara Morris
>
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