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If I want to put this code in another program, how would I define the procedure there?



On Jan 6, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/6/2015 12:29 PM, Jack Tucky wrote:

I tried to code the PR/PI in my first RPG and it says I can't return a
value. Do I need something different? Sorry I'm so vague. I'm still not
where I need to be on procedures/service programs, etc.

In order to return a value, you need to tell the procedure interface
(and prototype) that. Here is an example of a procedure that takes a 10
character 'date' and converts it into an 8 digit number. The place
where we define what gets returned is on the PI spec; here it's '8s 0'.
The actual /value/ that gets returned is in the return statement (here,
unimaginatively called retVal).

* convert 'yyyy-mm-dd' to yyyymmdd
p date10to8 b
d date10to8 pi 8s 0
d date10 10a const
...
d retVal s 8s 0 inz
...
return retVal;
p e

You'd do something similar with your 'return the next number' procedure.

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--buck

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