RE: Variable Variable names

["Bruce Guetzkow" <bruceg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul:

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Does any one know if it is possible in RPG (or any other i_series)
language to do the following

Ws_work_zone = %pgmvar(var) 
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The only language that I know of that allows this is REXX.  Using the
VALUE function you can do the following...

        data = 'Some Value'

        var = 'data'

        say value(var)

The "value(var)" can be translated into English as "give me the contents
(or value) of the variable specified in the variable name var".

Having said this, REXX is somewhat limited in processing data directly,
although you can do an OVRDBF to file STDIN and read data from a single
file, or execute SQL statements in REXX (which is much more powerful).

Hope that helps,
--Bruce Guetzkow