Re: IFS Open

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

> all is good. However, when I put the same value in a variable (FileName)
> and use it like this:
>
> D FileName        S           1024    Varying
> fd = open(FileName : flags);
>
> I receive an fd of -1 and the message "open() for input: No such path or
> directory." I've tried a bunch of different combinations and can't make
> it work.

Please make sure that you've trimmed any spaces off of the end of the
filename.  Spaces ARE legal in IFS filenames, so "/path/to/Myfile.txt" is
a different file than "/path/to/Myfile.txt "

Since you're using a VARYING variable, you probably only need to ensure
that when the filename is assigned to this variable, you trim any trailing
blanks from it.

If you were using a fixed-length variable, you'd have to do the %trimr()
directly on the open() statement...

Hope that helps...