Re: MOVE (was: /FREE RPG compiler errors)

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck Calabro wrote:
> 
> Rarely are the names that descriptive.  I usually see something akin to
> c                   move      cust          suffix
> and then I get to find out that this is really extracting the last three
> characters of the customer ID, which nominally looks like "1234567-001".  In
> this example, it's really "substring the last three characters" and not a
> MOVE at all.
> ...
> If I run across a situation where I need MOVE for one of it's very cool
> conversion/extraction/substring functions, I will write a subprocedure in
> fixed form that uses MOVE.  A perfect example is my "extract the customer
> suffix" above.
> ...

Buck, assuming "suffix" is exactly big enough to hold the suffix, use
EVALR.

   EVALR suffix = cust;