Re: OVRMSGF and QCMDEXC procedure

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right.  I don't remember when I picked up that habit...

However, the other question remains -- how does Tommy Holden get QCMDEXC 
to ignore the 2-byte length prefix of his varying length CmdStr field?

Rory Hewitt wrote:
> Peter,
>
> QCMDEXC doesn't care about trailing blanks, so you don't *ever* need the
> %trim().
>
> QCMDEXC(CmdStr:%Len(CmdStr));
>
> works whether or not CmdStr is fixed-length or varying-length.
>
> Rory
>
> On 8/24/07, Peter Dow (ML) <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Because QCMDEXC does not expect a varying length field as a parameter --
> > how do you tell it to skip the length in the 1st two bytes?
> >
> > Not that it's a whole lot different:
> >
> > QCMDEXC(CmdStr:%Len(%trim(CmdStr)));
> >