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Hi David,

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D PI
D input 32767 value
D linelength 5 0 value
D lineCount 5 0 value
D output 32767

Not part of the problem, but... it should be noted that passing a 32k field by VALUE will not perform well. You might consider changing that to 'CONST'.

Now on to the problem:

inputLength = %len(%trim(input));
workBufferP = %alloc(inputLength + lineLength);
workBuffer = %trim(input);

In this example, workBuffer will only have 139 bytes of memory allocated to it. However, when you do 'workbuffer = %trim(input)' you are assign 32767 bytes to it. That's a big problem... that means that whatever happens to be in the 32628 bytes after the space you allocated will be overwritten... which isn't good.

You may be saying 'But, Scott... %trim(input) is only 89 bytes long!' That's true, but you have workBuffer defined as a fixed-length variable, and therefore RPG will pad the rest of the field with blanks.

So, workBuffer is 32767 bytes long... it'll assign the 89 bytes from inputLength, and then fill the remainder of the 32k with blanks -- not good, since you haven't allocated the remainder of the field!

Hope that makes sense.

The solution is this:

%subst(workbuffer:1:inputLength) = %trim(input);


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