RE: BIF Nesting

If you're up to date on PTF's I believe the %Len BIF is available but I
wouldn't stake my life on it, I haven't been on a V3R2 machine in quite some
time.

Other than that, %Size will return the field' full length as defined.  I
think that's why you're recieving an error when used in conjuction with
%Trim, which trims off leading & trailing blanks from a character field.
%TrimR trims off trailing blanks only.

Without %Len, the only other method of determining the length of a strings
value without using an array, is to use CHECKR (Check reverse) op code where
you check for the first non-blank position of "SomeField" from right to
left.

Hope this helps,

Regards,
Jon A. Erickson
Sr. Programmer Analyst
www.800.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 4:04 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: BIF Nesting


David & Rajeev:
 
> One can also use Len = %len(%trim(somefld))

As I put in my original post, I'm on CISC V3R2.  There is no %Len BIF.

-- 
-Jeff
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