Re: Advantages of RPG

Really, most of what has been mentioned so far gives RPG little or no

advantage over COBOL or PL/I, because most of what has been mentioned so far
is stuff that existed in those languages long before it existed in PL/I.

I am doing a little COBOL these days and there are a handful of small things
that drive me nuts that I take for granted in RPG.

For example, I have to first clear a string variable before I apply a
literal value to it in the event the last string was longer than the one I
am putting in. I would love to hear I am doing something wrong and there is
an easier way :-)

MOVE SPACES TO var1.
STRING var2 DELIMITED BY SIZE,
"somestring" DELIMITED BY SIZE
INTO var1.
CALL PROCEDURE "RPG_CODE" USING
var1 RETURNING isError.

That makes for a lot of extra coding in my COBOL program that I don't have
in RPG.

I would love it if I could instead do the following:

CALL PROCEDURE "RPG_CODE" USING trimr(var2) + var1 RETURNING isError.

Aaron Bartell
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