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  3. April 2003

Re: Literal chopped off by varying when passed

"Mackie, Roger L. (Precision Press)" wrote:
> 
> Aaron,
> 
> In my limited experience subprocedure fields with the VARYING keyword,
> adding VALUE or CONST does not produce the expected results. Maybe Barbara
> could tell us why. If you get it to work, please be sure to share it with
> the list.
> 

In my experience, using VALUE or CONST with VARYING works ok.  If you
try to look at the data beyond the current length you might see what
looks like garbage, but your program wouldn't be seeing that unless you
were using some overlays to go beyond the "valid" data.

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