Re: Eval expression problem

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, a kludge.  It has something to do with the way RPG handles variable 
lengths in
the Eval statement.  Just for the heck of it, make the length of Logtext 
something like
75, and see if the whole string doesn't then show up.  Odds are, it will.

I can't explain why this is so, as I don't fully understand it, but this might 
do it for you.

Have you considered making logtext a variable length string?  That would 
probably
do it also.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Steve Moland wrote:

>
>
> I can't seem to figure out why the first example does not produce
> the same answer as the second very kludge example.
> The day and year and time do not make it into the output field in example 1.
>
> "Months" is an array of month names.
> RSFLIB is 10 character (so says RPG ) variable length field
>      in a file created by SQL. It contains "TRRSF999P"
> Lmm is a 2 byte signed numeric field containing  05
> Ldd is a 2 byte signed numeric field containing  28
> Lyyyy is a 4 byte character field containing  2000
> Lhhmmss is a 6 byte signed numeric field containing  010647
> #Time is a 8 byte character field
> LOGTEXT is 50 character field.
>
> I                        *VAR A  113  124  RSFLIB
>
> Example 1
> Eval                    logtext = RSFLIB + ' was rebuilt on ' +
>                         Months(Lmm) + %editw(Ldd : ' 0') +
>                         ', ' + Lyyyy  +
>                         ' at ' + %editw(Lhhmmss : '0 :  :  ')
>
> LOGTEXT = 'TRRSF999P was rebuilt on May                      '
>
> Example 2
> Eval                    logtext = RSFLIB + ' was rebuilt on ' +
>                         Months(Lmm)
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ' ' +
>                         %editw(Ldd : ' 0')
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ', ' + lyyyy
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ' at '
> eval                    #time  =  %editw(Lhhmmss : '0 :  :
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ' ' + #time
>
> LOGTEXT = 'TRRSF999P was rebuilt on May 28, 2000 at  1:06:47 '
>
> Thanks for looking at this
> Steve

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