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  3. June 2004

Re: Varying length problem on Procedure

Smith, Mike wrote:

I getting the following error: Length of varying length variable is out
of range
I receive this error on the following statement :
C                   EVAL      #First = GLowToUp(%SUBST(UMFNM:1:1))

P gLowToUp B EXPORT
D PI 100A Varying
D FieldIn 100A Value
D Varying
*
D LCase C
Const('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')
D UCase C
Const('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
D RESULT s 100A Varying
*
C Eval %len(RESULT) = %len(FieldIn)
C LCase:UCase XLATE FieldIn RESULT
C Return RESULT
P GLowToUp E ... 


How about coding this instead:

      #First = %xlate(LCase:UCase:%subst(UMFNM:1:1));

Cheers! Hans


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