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Why reinvent the wheel but with a different name?
SQL already has the scalar function REPEAT(). Other DB's have the REPLICATE() function to do the same thing.
IF RPG were to implement a bif, I'd prefer the name matches the SQL function. Consistency is a feature...
If I were worried about this today, I'd just wrapper the SQL into a procedure and be done with it.
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Sam_L
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 2:53 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Proposal for New RPG BIF
Perhaps %genchars(<character>, <length>)?
Though I wonder about the use cases for this feature.
Sam
On 7/31/2024 5:01 PM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Why limit it to spaces ?
Perhaps %fill(<character>, <length>)
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