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  3. January 2005

Re: %scan BIF error or not?

Brad Stone wrote:
> 
> Hans, Barbara?  Is there a "right" way to use %scan in this
> case for both OSs?  Should we always make sure that the
> length of the scanning string plus the start position isn't
> longer than the string we are scanning?
> 

The rules for %SCAN were relaxed in V5R1; if the first string is longer
than the second string, %SCAN returns 0 without an error.  There is no
PTF for V4R5, so if you want to avoid your program getting an exception
in V4R5, you'll have to do the length checks before doing the %SCAN.

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