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Greetings List,
I am somewhat confuse, which seems to be my general state these days,
about field size definitions.

If I define a field as follow:

D FOOT_NOTES_FIELD...
D S 65535A INZ(*BLANKS)

Doesn't that mean the field will hold 65535 characters?

Here is what I am trying to do. I have a file that contains 80 records.
Each record can be up to 300 characters long. I have to put all 80
records into one continuous field.

Below is a code snippet of how the field is loaded:

DOW NOT %EOF(RFQFOOTNPF);

FOOT_NOTES_FIELD = %TRIM(FOOT_NOTES_FIELD) + %TRIM(FOTNOTE) + '|';
READE (RFQ# : QSTRAT_ITEM_NUMBER) RFQFOOTNPF;

ENDDO;

When I view FOOT_NOTES_FIELD in debug or when it is output to a text
file, it only shows 1024 characters. Why is that?

If anyone has a better idea of how to do this, I would love to hear it.


Thanks,

Terry Anderson
Programming Manager
Citation Corporation
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Fax 251.867.0525
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