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  3. January 2013

Re: convert *usa formatted varying string bombs at v5r4

Hi John

I agree that it is a bug - did I hear right in earlier posts that it changed, that it worked in newer releases? If so, another good reason to move forward, eh?

Cheers
Vern

On 1/30/2013 12:43 AM, John Yeung wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think that the leading zero has anything to do with it as
such - rather it is the effect that that has on the field length.
Interesting. It does seem to first check the length to make sure it's
not too short. It's fine if the field is too long (fixed or varying),
but it can't be too short (fixed or varying; in the case of fixed, it
won't even compile).

Doesn't change my assessment that this is a bug. If anything, this
strikes me as even sloppier implementation, or even more clueless
documentation.

John


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