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  • Subject: Re: Procedure Problem
  • From: "Scott Klement" <infosys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 22 Dec 1999 13:44:19 -0600

Thats a good idea, too...  didn't occur to me, as I can't use
"varying" fields at V3R2...


boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Scott wrote:
> >Third, if you do want to use options(*varsize) you could use an
> >operational descriptor to get the string length, and then make
> >sure that you only reference that length of data...
>
> Perhaps a better alternative would be to define the parameter
> as a varying length character string.  ie:
>
> D Center          PR           256A   OPDESC
> D   instring                   256A   CONST VARYING
>
> Varying length char strings are much easier to work with.
>
> Cheers!  Hans
>
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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