Re: free form alternatives?

back to my orginal post ... is there a way to BIF/d-spec or free-form *entry
plist and klist/kfld?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cozzi (RPGIV)" <cozzi@rpgiv.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: free form alternatives?


> There are two ways to do this today.
> 1) Use %CHAR()
> 2) Use %EDITC with the "X" edit code.
>
> %CHAR is primarily for concatenation, and %EDITC for building nicely
> formatted output. But %EDITC can be used to copy numeric values into
> character fields using any existing RPG edit code as a formatting mask.
>
> Bob Cozzi
> cozzi@rpgiv.com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of Carel Teijgeler
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:58 AM
> > To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: free form alternatives?
> >
> > --
> > At 16:10 24-9-01, you wrote:
> >
> > >Can somebody let me know if there are free form alternatives to
> klist/kfld
> > >and *entry plist?
> > >
> > >Those are the only 2 things currently stopping me from completely
> removing
> > >the c-spec from the program I am attempting to convert to free form.
> >
> > Robert,
> >
> > If the occasion occurs, how are you going to move a numeric field into
> a
> > character field using free form syntax? Just like to know.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Carel Teijgeler
> >
> > --
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