Re: VARYING, options(*varsize) and exit point programs

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Scott,

Thanks for that explanation.

I figured most of this out by brute force before taking the time to catch 
up on email.

You were right.  They aren't really varying.  (No two bytes at the 
beginning for the length.)  Attempting to define them as such caused the 
loss of two leading characters of the variables.

You were also right that trying to do a USRIN=%substr(usrin:1:usrlenin); 
would destroy the other variables. 

What I ended up doing was creating work variables within the program. Sort 
of like workusrin=%substr(usrin:1:usrlenin)  (with a monitor group in case 
usrlenin was zero).

Rob Berendt
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