Re: use for dynamic memory allocation -- RPG400-L

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Joel Fritz wrote:

> I'm curious what people are actually doing.  Has anyone found a good
> application for linked lists and other data structures that use dynamic
> memory allocation in RPG?

I have written a subprocedure that left justifies text to any length (very
useful for making large text fields look nice on reports).  Since I have
no way to know the size of string to be justified, dynamic memory
allocation makes perfect sense here.

James Rich
james@dansfoods.com

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