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Well, MOVE(L) does a lot of things.

But what would happen when you MOVE a 5 character field into a varying
string?  Does it make a difference if the Varying string already contains 10
characters?  Should it replace the first 5 characters and leave the last 5
alone?  Or should it make the string 5 characters long?  And if you wanted
it to just replace the first 5 characters, what would you want it to do if
the varying string contained only 3 characters?  Should it make the string 5
character?  Or should it just replace the 3 characters?

I believe the reason Move wasn't ported to freeformat is because of these
types of questions.  MOVE doesn't work well, IMO, on varying strings
because, so far, it hasn't had to.

I really don't know what would happen if I tried to do a MOVE into a varying
length string, but I'm sure it wouldnt' be the way I wanted it to.

Regards,

Jim Langston


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