Re: Any way in the CL program to find the length of the character datastored in a variable?

Here's the V5R2 link:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/apis/qclsca
n.htm

But I would use a substring method myself - no reason to call another
program and take the performance hit when you can do it in a loop with %SST.

                   
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> Thanks Doug....
> Is it an API?... Wats the Parm list for this...  Coudnt get any in my
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> Is there any way in the CL program to find the length of the character data
> stored in a variable?
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> I find there is no direct CL command to acheive this... may be some
> roundabout way there to do this... but nothing striking at this moment....
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> i think of some prgm calls with the required variable as the parm and the
> receiviong prgm process the variable etc... but couldnt get any logic here
> :-)......
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