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  3. May 2007

RE: Max length of a VARYING field

From: Holden Tommy

Well I know several people (myself included) that bypass the index bytes
by using %SUBST ... Mydata = %subst(myvaryfld:3:x)

I'm not trying to be argumentative, Tommy, but that actually isn't correct.
%SUBST(MYVARYFLD:1:1) gives you the first data character of the varying
field. %SUBST automagically skips the prefix.

You might be thinking of %ADDR(MYVARYFLD), which if I'm not mistaken DOES
give you the address of the prefix rather than the field (much the same way
that %SIZE gives you the size of the field plus the prefix bytes).

Joe



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