RE: Subject: %LEN and *ZERO

Thanks Hans.   Can you send me a CD with the 5.1 compiler.  Can I install and run on my system today?  ;-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:06 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Subject: %LEN and *ZERO

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