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Would you care to explain? The feature to do so (fill a numeric array)
did already exist on fixed-format RPG. Why porting it to /FREE would
have meant any major changes?

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries



On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
have a full equivalent is the SCAN opcode, with a
numeric array as the result field.  I don't
understand why that one got short-changed during
the implementation of the %Scan() BIF.

Such implementation would require overloading, which is presently not
available within RPG.

Regards,

Dennis Lovelady
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