RE: [IBM Manuals wrong for RPG CAT? (Hans?)]

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

Dan,

Those "results" were copied from the web manuals.  You got the results that
I said I thought they should be.

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools
http://www.bvstools.com





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan [mailto:dantanabanana@netscape.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:07 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: [IBM Manuals wrong for RPG CAT? (Hans?)]
> 
> 
> Brad,
> 
> Your results are not my results.  Maybe you need a PTF.  
> Directly copy/pasted
> your posted code into SEU, included a DUMP, compiled and ran 
> it, and DUMP
> shows:
> 
> NAME         ATTRIBUTES      VALUE                                  
> FIRST        CHAR(6)         ' SMITH'         '40E2D4C9E3C8'X       
> FLD1         CHAR(3)         'XYZ'            'E7E8E9'X             
> FLD2         CHAR(9)         'ABC  XYZ '      'C1C2C34040E7E8E940'X 
> NAME         CHAR(3)         'MR.'            'D4D94B'X             
> RESULT       CHAR(9)         'MR. SMITH'      'D4D94B40E2D4C9E3C8'X 
>             * * * * *   E N D   O F   R P G   D U M P   * * * 
> * *             
>    
> 
> "Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> wrote:
> > Well, I was looking into something, and this struck me.  I 
> had to verify my
> > thoughts with someone else on this  My co-worker agreed 
> these looked wrong.
> > The examples for the CAT operation in the RPG reference are 
> wrong.  Either
> > that or I'm SO fried right now that I can't see it.  Here 
> are the examples:
> > 
> > The following example shows leading blanks in factor 2.  After
> >    |    * the CAT, the RESULT contains 'MR.SMITH'.
> >    |    *
> >    |   C                   MOVE      'MR.'         NAME     
>          3
> >    |   C                   MOVE      ' SMITH'      FIRST    
>          6
> >    |   C     NAME          CAT       FIRST         RESULT   
>          9
> >    |    *
> >    |    *  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
> >    |
> >    Figure 198. CAT Operation 
> > 
> > Shouldn't the first example be 'MR.^SMITH' and the second 
> be 'ABC^^XYZ'?
> > (^=space)
> > 
> > The others are wrong as well.  If I am correct and not out 
> of my mind, then
> > I can only come to the assumption that when translating the 
> manuals to
> HTML,
> > if they aren't using <PRE> then they forgot for each space 
> to put in a
> >   character.  That's besides the point, though.  I am 
> looking at this
> > correctly, right?
> > 
> > Hans, what's up with this?
> > 
> > Bradley V. Stone
> > BVS/Tools
> > http://www.bvstools.com
> 
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