Re: Variable number of parameters in CL

There is still no such thing as a count of parameters that I remember, so put a MONMSG MCH3401 (MCH3601? I forget which) after the first use of the optional parameters, then use a GOTO to skip around the new code. There might also be some newer commands for handling errors since V5R3 and up - not sure. Thought I'd seen something about DO WHILE that involved message IDs once at COMMON. But don't quote me on that.

HTH
Vern

Simon Coulter wrote:

On 28/09/2009, at 10:51 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:

Is there any way to keep a CL program from failing if too few parameters are passed like you can in RPG by detecting the number of parameters with %parms() and then not referencing the missing parameter(s) if they were not passed? I have a CL program that is called from about 50 other applications and I need to add a new parameter for just one new function to be used currently in one application.

Make it a CLLE program.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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