Re: Proposal for New RPG BIF

The elegance of a BIF would prevent you from writing the extra code.
I already use a variable that's 2048 bytes long initialized with all
blanks, and then take a substring of it to concatenate the main string with
the blanks that I need. I also use a similar variable filled with stars
and tabs, and I do the same. Wouldn't it be useful if a BIF gives you that?

JS


El mié, 31 jul 2024 a las 12:52, Jon Paris (<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:

Just for fun ...

dcl-s blanks char(40) Inz;
dcl-s x char(30);

x = 'A' + %Left( blanks : 10 ) + 'B';


Jon P.

On Jul 31, 2024, at 2:46 PM, Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I ran this completely unscientific comparison.

startTime = %timestamp();
For x = 1 to 1000;
gResult = ' ' + BASE + ' ';
Endfor;
endTime = %timestamp();
charOut = %char( %diff(endTime :startTime :*ms) );
Dsply charOut;

startTime = %timestamp();
For x = 1 to 1000;
EXEC SQL set :gResult = space(5) || :BASE || space(5);
Endfor;
endTime = %timestamp();
charOut = %char( %diff(endTime :startTime :*ms) );
Dsply charOut;

Results for 2 runs:
DSPLY 39
DSPLY 12531

DSPLY 63
DSPLY 13600
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