Re: LEFT Error (Or PICNIC Error...) REFORMATTED -- MIDRANGE-L

Joe,

 OK Pound on me all you want, I'm used to it.

Joe Pluta wrote:

And if there were such a built-in function, it would start with a %, as

all such built-in functions do.  That minimum level of familiarity with
the language helps when you use it.

And I use % as in %substr and %len but when the super duperintegrated RSE editor doesn't know that there is no LEFT either I tried it.

Why would you assume that something you happened to look up in the help
would apply to RPG?

Because I was in an RPG source member when I pressed F1. It'a allabout the context. Check out every politician who ever held an officeand they will tell you their opponent tooke some statement out ofcontext which (usually) twisted the meaning around 180 degrees. Gogoogle RPG. Now google iSeries RPG. Totally and completely differentcontext with totally and completely different resutls.

Ironically the help system has a tool to set the search scope (i.e.context) for your searching. Nowhere in the context does it allow you toselect a language. Seems like an oversite to me.

 Far better to use the standard context-assist key
combination of Ctrl-space.

Never heard of it. So I just tried it. Got me a list of optionssuch as *AND and *NOT and *HIVAL and *LOVAL etc etc. Pretty, um,useful?... Oh and that was SOO intuitive. Why I didn't think to hitctrl-space, I'm just not sure.

Why would you assume that?  The Help text is there for the entire tool,
as opposed to the context-assist feature, which would have given you
only those things which made sense for the current editor.

Once again I was editing RPG so I would expect (in error apprently)that the help system would know that.


Unless you go to the table of contents link, which tells you that you
are in the REXX book.  I suppose a title on the top of every page to
tell you which language you are in might help, but as I said, you were
better off using content assist.

Better off by who's definition? Ctrl-alt-Shift-Del-backspace didn'thelp either. What other combos should I try?

I don't much understand this.  Since I don't know what @IFC contains and
I don't know what IPAddress contains, it's hard to know what this does.
But in your original issue, eval IPT2 = %subst(IPT1:1:LN) would have
worked just fine.

Just different variable names. In the original LN was alreadyevaluated to %LEN(%TRIMR(@IFC)) to simplify debugging had it ever compiled.

Joe