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THAT'S IT...i knew I did something to that affect somewhere LOL


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:11 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Max length of a VARYING field

From: Holden Tommy

Well I know several people (myself included) that bypass the index
bytes
by using %SUBST ... Mydata = %subst(myvaryfld:3:x)

I'm not trying to be argumentative, Tommy, but that actually isn't
correct.
%SUBST(MYVARYFLD:1:1) gives you the first data character of the varying
field. %SUBST automagically skips the prefix.

You might be thinking of %ADDR(MYVARYFLD), which if I'm not mistaken
DOES
give you the address of the prefix rather than the field (much the same
way
that %SIZE gives you the size of the field plus the prefix bytes).

Joe



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