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>From: Jim Langston <jlangston@celsinc.com> >Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:12:07 -0800 > > ... >That's where my problem comes in. Some of these files have record lengths >of 92, some 112, etc.. I'm 99% sure that if I just specified the longest >record length of 112 and internally described the file it wouldn't not work >the way I wanted to at all. > >The only other thing I can think of is to create 3 or more versions of this >RPGLE program, one with each of the different record lengths I come across, >and in a CL or such look at the record length and call the proper RPGLE >program to read the comments. Jim, if you open a file that is shorter than the F-spec declared length, the system will pad the remaining parts of the buffer with blanks. It even brags about it (see message CPF4011). Barbara Morris
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