RE: Varying problems

I'm just starting to use Varying, too. If I understand correctly, if you put
blanks in the field, they get counted as valid characters. Leaving
Inz(*Blank) off the definition should do what you want.

Roger Mackie

-----Original Message-----
From: William A.(Tony) Corbett [mailto:corbett@ASRESOURCES.COM]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 15:32
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Varying problems


Hi all,
Apparently, I do not understand the VARYING keyword.  In Debug, after the
following code executes, when I do an F11 (display var) on @lmsg, it shows
all blanks.

D @lmsg           S           5000A    Varying Inz(*Blank)
............................................................
C                   Eval      @lmsg = @lmsg + 'Order#: ' + purchord +
C                             ', owner code not found for Member#: ' +
C                             @fmtcpy# + ':/N'

?? why ??

TIA

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