RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()

["Phil" <sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

<SNIP>
> I get the idea people forget that the majority
> of programmers don't have the time to learn a whole bunch of new
> opcodes and
> BIFs and APIs because they're busy trying to get code out the door to meet
> real business demands.

I do!  Otherwise I'd become so bored I'd die in my chair.  And, when I'm old
and gray I don't want to be like some S/36 programmers that I know who run
around yelling about LDA.

<SNIP AGAIN>
> I mean picture this:
>
> "Angie, I need you and Sam to convert our order entry to
> free-form RPG.  We
> need it this week."
>
> Do you at least have a conversion tool for those poor people?
>

If Angie and Sam can't do it, I'll bid on the job.

Because I know that CODE/400 has a "Convert All to Free form" option and
that after I take that option the program will compile and run.  All of the
MOVE's will stay.

And if it's still in RPGIII, I'll throw in as a bonus converting the source
to RPGIV (why not, a tool comes with the OS.)  Of course, not much if
anything will be free format.   :-)

BTW: I don't think MOVE is going anywhere.  You can't use it within an /FREE
/END-FREE block but you can use it in a pgm which also has /FREE:

 C              move    this    there
/free
     this = %editc(there:'X');
/end-free

It just breaks up the block - harder to read and not elegant.

Phil



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