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  3. July 2003

Re: Converting Packed to Char.

Carlos Kozuszko wrote:
> 
> I want to create a procedure to return a varchar from a given number, len
> and dec positions, like this:
> 
> eval MsgData = Filename + Filelib + CharNum(size: 7: 0)
> 
> I want to use CharNum() primarily to set the messagedata for my message
> descriptions. Any ideas on how to accomplish this as elegantly as possible ?

If you use the same messages over and over, I think the most elegant
approach would be to have subprocedures to create the message data. 
Then the subprocedure can just define a data structure with the correct
layout, and assign the parameters to the subfields.

       eval  MsgData = XYZ0031_data (filename : filelib : size)

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