STFW Replies

Must we start this STFW / RTFM thread again.  Mr. Martin is obviously not a
newbie, and as I have seen it has provided useful help on many occasions.
So he needed a reminder on a substring or replace syntax (which, by the way,
I used the %replace so infrequently that I have to re-look it up almost
every time I have a need to use it [laugh if you must]).  Would it have been
so hard to just give the answer and move on?  Or to just ignore the message
if you thought it did not warrant a response in your opinion.  Perhaps (and
most probably) I am reading the wrong tone into your reply.  If so, I most
humbly apologize in advance.

OTOH, I saw a number of methods to handle the same task from the replies
that I have read so far so it proved to be a useful question IMHO.


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Shannon O'Donnell [mailto:sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:   Monday, August 18, 2003 1:08 PM
To:     RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject:        Re: replacing characters using %subst

Booth,

You may want to check the online IBM manuals for questions such as these.
These books are great resources for just this type of question.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzahgrpgcode.htm#rpgi
le



Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:51 AM
Subject: replacing characters using %subst


>
>
>  Another simple question for which I don't know the answer.
>
> Lets say I want to substring characters 3 through 8 from the string
> abcdefghijklmnopqrst and put those characters in position  13 through 18
of
> a field named FIELD2 which is large enough.
>
> C     eval    FIELD2 = ???  what goes here?
>