RE: right$

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The other thing is that the string handling BIFs are using work fields
anyway.  It's the same idea--hide the implementation. I agree with that
100%--especially if the procedure version helps make the code more readable.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Handy [mailto:dhandy1@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:56 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: right$
>
>
> Joel,
>
> >I'm lazy and absent minded so I don't mind the work field
> too much.<g>  ...  In
> >some ways I'd prefer the work field so I could look at the code a
> >week later, read the comment, and understand what I was trying to do.
>
> That's the same reasons I created a Right() function in a
> service program back
> at V3R2, along with lots of other string handling functions.
> It uses work
> variables but who cares?  The code in the calling program
> would look like:
>
>    MYVAR = Right( '   thisisseveralcharacters   ': 10 )
>
> or more likely use a variable name for the first argument.
>
> Why not just create a subprocedure to do it?  And better yet,
> put it in a
> service program?
>
> Doug
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