RE: Any way in the CL program to find the length of the character data stored in a variable?

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   8. Any way in the CL program to find the length of the character
>      data  stored in a variable? (Siva)
>
>Is there any way in the CL program to find the length of the character data 
>stored in a variable?
> 
>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....
> 
> 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 
> :-)......

Siva:

Create this CL program:

*----begin
pgm         ( +
              &Value      +
              &Len        +
            )

   dcl        &Value      *char      3002
   dcl        &Len        *dec      (   5 0 )


   chgvar     &Len        %bin( &Value 1 2 )


   return

endpgm
*----end

Now create this command using the CL program as the command-processing program:
*----begin
 RTNLEN:     CMD        PROMPT('Return LEN of a value')


             PARM       KWD(VALUE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(3000) MIN(1) +
                          EXPR(*YES) VARY(*YES) PROMPT('Value to +
                          measure')

             PARM       KWD(LEN) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(5 0) RTNVAL(*YES) +
                          MIN(1) CHOICE('Variable name (*DEC 5,0)') +
                          PROMPT('Returned length')
*----end

You will then have a RTNLEN command that will return the length of any *CHAR 
variable up to 3000 in length. The length will be returned as a *DEC (5 0) 
value.

All done in CL and it works well.

Tom Liotta

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