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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/30/2019
01:09:53 PM:
Real quick: what does this do?
%subst(string: 1: %min(10: %len(string)))
now, what does this do?
%subst(string: 1: 10)
I would actually prefer %left(string: 10), but that is not an option.
You prefer the first? I don't.
Actually, I prefer neither -- if, as you say, either can fail at
execution time.
I also don't see the second as sloppy.
I do -- if it can fail at execution time.
I see that as wasted effort.
I don't -- to prevent failures t execution time.
Here is a solution for you that doesn't require IBM to waste their
time and money changing something that works just fine as it is... Create
a service procedure called "fuzzy_subst()" (or something similar) and then
always use that service procedure instead of using %subst() directly.
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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