RE: Compile error - why?

Uh, yeah, I kind of gathered.  I'm trying to figure out why (Hans?) such a
restriction is in place.  It seems a bit silly.  Kind of like not being
able to level break (cycle) on a binary field.

I did find out that after V4R5 it gets easier, as the %char bif can
supposedly take an additional parameter for the conversion format.

At 05:30 AM 10/4/02, you wrote:

VARRYING is not allowed with this date conversion.
it should be fixed length character variable...

Be ignorant than urban insane
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Duzenbury [SMTP:rduz@westernmidrange.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:51 AM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Compile error - why?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a compile error on this.  What is that rationale for not
> allowing one to move from a date field into a VARYING alpha field?  This
> machine is on V4R5, btw.  Now it looks like I'll have to declare a
> non-varying field to accept the data, and then do an extra move or eval to
> get the data over into $tagval.
>
> D work_date       S               D
> D $tagval         s            512    VARYING
> C     *usa          movel     work_date     $tagval
>
> *RNF7560 30      1 Variable-length field is not allowed with this
> operation.
>
> Curious.