Re: MOVE/MOVEL and %Scan

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>Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 03:53:52 -0500
>From: "Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@merck.com>
>
>I guess I once tested MOVEL on a VARYING field, and got the result that it
>also overwrote the first two bytes containing the length of the VARYING
>field ?  Has this ever been the case, or is my memory really failing ?
> ...

I don't recall that ever being the case, but my memory may be failing.
Maybe you're recalling a problem with the debugger - it didn't handle
varying fields very well, at first.

>I also encountered another issue that seems to be running fine now ?  In
the
>past when I was doing a %Scan and the search argument was bigger than the
>actual VARYING string, the program crashed.  If I now try this...
everything
>goes fine (and it returns 0... as it should be in my opinion).  Again, am
I
>getting old ?

Paul, you remember correctly.  This is one of the changes listed in the
"What's new in this release" section of the V5R1 ILE RPG Programmer's
Guide.
Point 4 in Other enhancements: "The search string in a %SCAN operation
can now be longer than string being searched. (The string will not be
found, but this will no longer generate an error condition.)"  It was
your question about this behaviour, maybe on this mailing list, that
prompted the change.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/books/c092507307.htm#HDRRELV5R1

Barbara Morris