RE: procedure/subroutine to quote a string with quotes

Yes you would but that's a whole other thread. :)

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On Behalf Of Rich Duzenbury
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:56 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: procedure/subroutine to quote a string with quotes

At 03:51 PM 11/8/02, you wrote:
>There's a (remote) possibility that the string could double in length.
>
>D EnQuote         PI          4096A   VARYING
>D  InString                   2048A   VALUE VARYING

The function as presented uses only instring, a copy passed by value
according to the above PI.  Won't it simply truncate silently if there
is
too much data?

Wouldn't you have to declare a variable to hold the changed characters,
e.g.
   D OutString                 4096A   Value
And then fill it?

Regards,
Rich


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