Re: Trying to concatenate

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder how long Uu401c is?  Try this and see if you get what you want:

C     eval   Ser2 = '(' + %char(Uu40ic) +  ')'
or
C     eval   Ser2 = '(' + %trim(Uu40ic) + ')'

depending on whether Uu40ic is char or dec.



John Furniss wrote:
> List,
>         I'm trying to put parenthesis around a field for a label I'm
> creating. It is to read (.5625"). My code:
> D Ser2               S              10  varying
> .
> .
> C                     Eval   Ser2 = '(' + Uu40ic + ')'
>
> It puts the left paren in, but not the right. What am I doing wrong? I
> put it in debug and stop right after the eval statement and sure enough,
> Ser2 is (.5625"
>
> TIA
>
> John Furniss
> Allied Machine & Engineering Corp.
> iSeries Application Programmer
> Phone (330) 343-4283 Ext. 8371
> email: jfurniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx