Re: Easy way to define a DS char subfield the same size as some numericfield?

D                 DS
D num30                      1        3   0
D Char3                      1        3

You mean something like this?

Michael Schutte



                                                                           
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All,

I've got a standalone field defined as packed(3,0).

Is there an easy way to define a DS subfiled as char(3)?

In other words, given any specific numeric field, how can a define a
corresponding character field large enough to hold the numeric data
without having to hardcode the subfield size?

The DS is used to send out an email message.  If there isn't an easy way
to do what I want, I'll just get rid of the DS altogether and use eval +
some bifs to build the message.  That may be a better option, but for
instructional purposes, I would like to show a DS without hard coded
sizes.


Thanks,

Charles Wilt
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