RE: What I am doing wrong with Time()

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

The operand message is that the parm does not have OPTIONS(*NOPASS) so it is
a REQUIRED parameter, (the RPG messages were written by someone who never
used an AS/400, or at least doesn't remember anything they've done while
they were using it.)


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of James H. H. Lampert
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:22 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: What I am doing wrong with Time()

Jaime Lopez Ortega wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> I have defined:
> 
>  * Time returned from time()
> Dtime_t           S             10I 0
> D time            PR            10I 0 EXTPROC('time')
> 
> C                   eval      time_t = time()
> 
> When I compile the program, I got
> 
>     794 C                   eval      time_t = time()
> 
>  ======>                                            a
> 
>  *RNF0637 30 a      002634  An operand was expected but was not found;
> specific
>                             ignored.
> 
> What I am doing wrong?

I'm speaking strictly from memory, with no reference materials at hand,
but try losing the empty parentheses. After all, this isn't C or Java.

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