RE: *Blanks and *Blank

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I prefer using eval.  :)

Bradley V. Stone

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Crothers [SMTP:bob@cstoneindy.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:21 AM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: *Blanks and *Blank
> 
> There is a huge difference between what MOVE and MOVEA does.
> 
> MOVE treats the array element like a single field.  MOVEA ignores 
> element boundaries.
> 
> In the example, MOVE will blank out the first element in the array but
> 
> leave 2 thru 100 alone.
> 
> MOVEA will blank out all elements starting with the element 
> specified...in this case, since you specified 1, the entire array.
> 
> And if you do a MOVE *BLANK ar1 where ar1 is an array and you did not 
> specify an array element, it will also blank out the entire array.
> 
> The moral is unless you know you need to use MOVEA, you should 
> probably do a MOVE or MOVEL.
> 
> And of course, there is no difference in the below between *BLANK and 
> *BLANKS in the below....because there never (that I know of) is a 
> difference between *BLANK and *BLANKS (besides the S)
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patpong W. [SMTP:patpong@zi-th.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 1998 9:13 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: *Blanks and *Blank
> 
> Hans,
> 
> I think this two keywords may differ when using with array element(s) 
> such
> the following:-
> 
> A is an alpha array with a hundred elements, 1 byte each.
> 
>       MOVE            *BLANK  A,1
>       MOVE            *BLANKS A,1
>       MOVEA   *BLANK  A,1
>       MOVEA   *BLANKS A,1
> 
> So, what is difference for these samples?
> 
> PPW
> ----------
> > From: Hans Boldt <boldt@ca.ibm.com>
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: *Blanks and *Blank
> >
> > >Maybe this's a stupid question, but please explain it to me.
> > >My question is :
> > >* What diferences between *BLANKS and *BLANK at RPG ?
> >
> > No difference.
> >
> > Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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