RE: Subject: %LEN and *ZERO

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a free upgrade, right?  I mean, if it fixes all these things,
shouldn't it be one big PTF?  ;)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jimlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:05 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Subject: %LEN and *ZERO
> 
> 
> Hehe, I got a chuckle out of that, Hans.
> 
> It really sounds like that V5R1 is going to have all those bells
> and whistles that we've been wanting for a long time.  Kudos.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:
> > 
> > Simon wrote:
> > >This question is for Hans or Barbara (or anyone else who knows):
> > >
> > >Why does the RPG IV compiler reject the following line 
> with RNF7563?
> > >    C                  EVAL %LEN(cmdString) = *ZERO
> > >when cmdString is defined as:
> > >    D cmdString     S              5768    VARYING
> > 
> > Why did we want to give an error message here?  Because we
> > felt like it.  That's why.
> > 
> > Anyways, to give a less flippant answer:  It doesn't fail for me.
> > There must be something wrong with your RPG compiler.
> > Specifically, you must be running some release older than V5R1.
> > 
> > (I hate to sound like a broken record, but, well, wait for V5R1.)
> > 
> > Cheers!  Hans
> > 
> > Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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