Re: Confused About Field Size.

Terry,
By default, debug will only show 1024 characters.
You can specify the length that you want to see on the EV command by using the syntax EV Field : C len or :X len for Hex.



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----- Original Message ----
From: Terry Anderson <terrya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 12:30:55 PM
Subject: Confused About Field Size.

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
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