Re: IFS Open

Thanks Scott and Joe...

I swear I need to get into a new line of business, but this is the only
thing I know. Sad, isn't it?

Scott: Thanks for the prototype definitions.

- Michael

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:21:55 -0500 (CDT), "Scott Klement"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 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...
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