Re: MI Newbie with XLATE instruction problem

You are correct about how these copies work.

What doesn't make sense is your original comment about 
XLATE       PARM-STRING, PARM-STRING, PARM-OLDCH, PARM-NEWCH;
not working.   It should have and there would be no need for NEWSTR.


Keith



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Winchester Terry"

> That's what I first thought too, but don't these 2 
> instructions save the PARM-STRING value into NEWSTR 
> and then clear the PARM-STRING variable?
> 
> CPYBLA      NEWSTR, PARM-STRING;                        
> CPYBREP     PARM-STRING, " ";
> 
> If so, then my receiver will be PARM-STRING (now empty)
> and the XLATE instruction should work from my new source 
> NEWSTR - or that's what I assumed :(
> 
> Terry