Re: %Len vs. %Size in %Replace

Mark, the size of the field indicates its defined size (in bytes), but it
doesn't necessarily mean that the field holds that much data.  Varying
length character fields and double-byte-character-sets really depend on
interpreting the length of the character string, not the actual number of
bytes that was reserved by the compiler.

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863

-----Original Message-----
From: M. Lazarus [mailto:mlazarus@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:58 PM
To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: %Len vs. %Size in %Replace

Why doesn't %Replace() accept the %Size BIF in the 4th parm?

This won't compile - it receives "RNF0384 The fourth parameter for %REPLACE is not valid."

ObjectName      10A
String  80A

C       EVAL String = %Replace( ObjectName :
                        String :
                        %Scan( 'qqqqqqqqqq': String ) :
                        %Size( ObjectName ) )

This does compile:

C       EVAL String = %Replace( ObjectName :
                        String :
                        %Scan( 'qqqqqqqqqq': String ) :
                         %Len( ObjectName ) )

-mark