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Scott,

 Why don't you use %Size()?  Then it should work in all cases.

 -mark

Original Message:
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From: Scott Klement rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:24:28 -0500 (CDT)
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Half-Adjust with /free


Hi Michael,

> Hmmm...doesn't seem to work...gives me a compile error. Odd though...it
> knows the %len and the %decpos of variable a at compile time.

%len() is an actual function that gets run at runtime.  I believe that the
reason for this is that you can put variable-length data in it.

For example, %len(%trimr(foo))... this can't be done at compile time
because the length of a trimmed string depends on it's contents, which
obviously can change at runtime.

But, by assigning %len() to a named constant, that forces it to be a
constant number that's known at compile time.   that's why my example
works...


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