If Don is already on V5R3, he should be able to safely use the
operational descriptors to get the actual field length of *varsize
param. Search for CEEDOD or opdesc and he should be able to get some
examples regarding this.
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Glauser
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:02 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Passing Parameters
Armbruster, Tom wrote:
You can't assign a pointer value to a field that is not the same specs
as the address without an error. In other words, you can't define
your static variable as 50A if the field that is passed is not also
50A.
This isn't exactly true Tom. What Scott and I suggested will work just
fine - the trick is that you have to be careful to pass the length of
the variable each time. In Don's case, the simplest way was to pass the
length as a parameter. In another situation, using the keywords 'CONST'
and 'VARYING' together would work. I've heard that operational
descriptors can be used as well, but I haven't done so myself.
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