Re: %Len vs. %Size in %Replace

While testing this; I found that it would be nice in STRDBG if you could 
F11 on %scan, %len , %siz to see result values of the bifs without moving 
them out of %replace.

Just a thought. :)

Thanks
Bill Hopkins 







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Hans,

  This is targeted to 5.1.  It is for a fixed length variable and the only 

change I made to the code was to switch from %Size() to %Len().  Any other 

ideas?

  -mark

At 8/25/03 09:15 AM, you wrote:

>In this case, when dealing with %LEN(STR) and %SIZE(STR) where STR is a 
>fixed length character variable, the BIF's should return the same value. 
>One difference may be that %SIZE() provides a value known at compile 
time, 
>which can be used during the relational diagnostics phase.
>
>On a V5R2 machine, the first code fragment does indeed compile for me. 
>Looking at the compiler code, I see there were some code changes in V4R4. 

>So perhaps Mark is targetting a release prior to then?
>
>Cheers! Hans
>
>
>DeLong, Eric wrote:
>
>>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

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