Re: RPG IV value as var -- RPG400-L

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RPG is a compiled language.

Variable names don't really exist. They exist for the convenience of human beings (computer programmers) who find it easier to understand data if it's given a name. However, the compiler runs, it generates code that asks the operating system for locations in the computer's main storage, and then stores the data into those memory addresses.

So when the program is running, there are no variables. There's just addresses in the computer's main storage. Variable names are SOURCE CODE, not compiled code. They do no good at run time.

Why not use a subprocedure?

PEPITOVADECURT wrote:

Is posible to assign a content from variable to a variable name?

Example in series:

0058.00 C MOVE 'DS1' SSS 3
0059.00 C Z-ADDO6ICAG SSS,1
0060.00 C Z-ADDO6IICD SSS,2
0061.00 C Z-ADDO6ICEE SSS,3
0062.00 C Z-ADDO6IMCE SSS,4
0063.00 C Z-ADDO6IOCE SSS,5
0064.00 C Z-ADDO6IREN SSS,6 0065.00 C MOVE 'DS2' SSS 3
0066.00 C Z-ADDO6ICAG SSS,1
0067.00 C Z-ADDO6IICD SSS,2
0068.00 C Z-ADDO6ICEE SSS,3
0069.00 C Z-ADDO6IMCE SSS,4
0070.00 C Z-ADDO6IOCE SSS,5
0071.00 C Z-ADDO6IREN SSS,6

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