Re: %Len vs. %Size in %Replace

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Hans,

 This is targeted to 5.1.  It is for a fixed length variable and the only 
change I made to the code was to switch from %Size() to %Len().  Any other 
ideas?

 -mark

At 8/25/03 09:15 AM, you wrote:

> In this case, when dealing with %LEN(STR) and %SIZE(STR) where STR is a 
> fixed length character variable, the BIF's should return the same value. 
> One difference may be that %SIZE() provides a value known at compile time, 
> which can be used during the relational diagnostics phase.
>
> On a V5R2 machine, the first code fragment does indeed compile for me. 
> Looking at the compiler code, I see there were some code changes in V4R4. 
> So perhaps Mark is targetting a release prior to then?
>
> Cheers! Hans
>
>
> DeLong, Eric wrote:
>
> > Mark, the size of the field indicates its defined size (in bytes), but it
> > doesn't necessarily mean that the field holds that much data.  Varying
> > length character fields and double-byte-character-sets really depend on
> > interpreting the length of the character string, not the actual number of
> > bytes that was reserved by the compiler.
> > Eric DeLong
> > Sally Beauty Company
> > MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
> > 940-898-7863 or ext. 1863
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: M. Lazarus [mailto:mlazarus@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:58 PM
> > To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: %Len vs. %Size in %Replace
> >
> >   Why doesn't %Replace() accept the %Size BIF in the 4th parm?
> >   This won't compile - it receives "RNF0384 The fourth parameter for 
> > %REPLACE is not valid."
> > ObjectName      10A
> > String  80A
> > C       EVAL String = %Replace( ObjectName :
> >                         String :
> >                         %Scan( 'qqqqqqqqqq': String ) :
> >                         %Size( ObjectName ) )
> >   This does compile:
> > C       EVAL String = %Replace( ObjectName :
> >                         String :
> >                         %Scan( 'qqqqqqqqqq': String ) :
> >                         %Len( ObjectName ) )
> >   -mark