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Re: Multi- Occurrence Data Structure


On 12-Dec-07, at 12:18 PM, James Lampert wrote:

But MOVE is useful, as it is
frequently useful to assign a string in such a way that any padding or
truncation happens on the left, and I know of no other construct, in RPG
or any other HLL, that does this.

In RPG the "other construct" is EVALR.

The padded MOVE equivalent of EVAL is MOVE(P).

It can be done in COBOL if the receiver is defined as JUSTIFIED RIGHT.



Jon (MOVE hater) Paris

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