Re: message description substitutions

On 08/11/2006, at 10:08 AM, Brian Lewis wrote:

I created a message file and added a message description to it like
MSG('&1 is an invalid value.') FMT((*QTDCHAR 15))

15 is the maximum length this field can take on, but it could be
anything from 0 to 15 in length.

I want the message to appear like
'BLAH' is an invalid value.

But it actually appears like
'BLAH           ' is an invalid value.

I'm sending it with QMHSNDPM. %trimr()ing the message data field doesn't

seem to matter. Setting the message data length field to
%len(%trimr(field)) doesn't seem to matter, either.

        FMT((*QTDCHAR *VARY 2))

Better to rephrase the message text too:
        Value &1 is not valid.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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