RE: rpgile strings > 65535

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Cozzi
www.rpgiv.com/seminars



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On Behalf Of Hans Boldt
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:10 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: rpgile strings > 65535


varner=vwZBVSELaea5SvY1vBzdmdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org wrote:
> I need to retrieve the last 32000 characters from a null-terminated
> string. According to IBM this can only be done using a C language
> program.  I don't know C.  Does anyone have any examples or
> suggestions?

Assuming you have a pointer to the data, you can manually search for the
X'00' character at the end of the string, then subtract 32000 to point
to the beginning of the data you're interested in.  The following
program illustrates (but pointing to the last 10 chars):

-------------------------------------------------------------
H dftactgrp(*no)
D area            s             10a   based(p)
D bch             s              1a   based(p)
D len             s             10i 0
D long            s          65535a   inz(*all'jdshfgjhdf')
  /free
     %subst(long:%size(long):1) = x'00';
     p = %addr(long);
     dow bch <> x'00';
        p = p + 1;
     enddo;
     p = p - 10;
     dsply area;
     *inlr = *on;
  /end-free
-------------------------------------------------------------

Cheers!  Hans



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