Re: IBM Manuals wrong for RPG CAT? (Hans?)

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are correct.  I looked in my manual and it says:
C* After the concatenation, FLD2 contains 'ABCbbXYZb'

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS)" wrote:

> <SNIP>
>    |    *  The following example shows the use of CAT without factor 1.
>    |    *  FLD2 is a 9 character string.  Prior to the concatenation, it
>    |    *  contains 'ABC'; FLD1 contains 'XYZ
>    |    *  After the concatenation, FLD2 contains 'ABCXYZ'.
>    |    *
>    |   C                   MOVEL(P) 'ABC'          FLD2              9
>    |   C                   MOVE     'XYZ'          FLD1              3
>    |   C                   CAT      FLD1:2         FLD2

>
> Shouldn't the first example be 'MR.^SMITH' and the second be 'ABC^^XYZ'?
> (^=space)

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