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  3. March 2002

RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()

>Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:31:00 -0500
>From: "Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@merck.com>
>
>MOVEL doesn't work on VARYING fields, hence I wouldn't even think about
>using MOVE on them (while it might indeed still work).

Paul, MOVE and MOVEL work on VARYING fields.  They behave exactly
the same as if the varying field was a fixed-length field of the
current length.  If varfield has a current value of 'abcde', and
you MOVEL '123' to it, it will have the value '123de'.  If you
MOVEL(P) '123', it will have the value '123  '.  Using MOVE
instead, you would get 'ab123' and '  123'.

Barbara Morris

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