RE: Variable length

Gentlemen, I found the issue: it seems that CONCATPDF command doesn't
allow more than 58 values of the INPUT parameter (even if the poor
documentation I have is telling me it is allowed 64); in other words, if
I use the command with 58 values (or less), everything is fine; if I use
it with 59 or more (*without making any change* - except increasing the
length of v_pdffiles to indecent values - just to prove the point), I
got those syntax errors I mentioned earlier (A matching apostrophe not
found, A matching parenthesis not found, etc.)

(I don't mention here anything about the solution, because it's
obvious!)

I never worked with such big values of a variable, so, I didn't know
about that trick to see in debugger more than 1024 characters and I was
under impression that the program truncates it, which is not true...


I would like to thank to all of you who showed your interest regarding
this matter, much appreciated...


Best regards,


Florin Todor




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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:30 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Variable length

Florin

Which debugger are you using? The green screen one has a default length
to display but you can put a number at the end to show more data. The
graphical one - I think you'd have to go to the memory tab to see more
data.

HTH
Vern

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From: "Florin Todor - YYZ Concord" <ftodor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Actually I do not receive an *escape message, the concatenation

process

simply doesn't work; when I look in job log, I see something like

that:

.A matching apostrophe not found
A matching parenthesis not found.
Error found on *N command.
Errors occurred in command.

Regarding the value of v_pdffiles, I copied it here just the end of

it,

taken from debugger (as you can see it is truncated after 1024
characters; there were supposed to be around 1600):

.....................................................................
721 'Reporting/Inv_70010095225.pdf' '/Reporting/Inv_70010095266.p'
781 'df' '/Reporting/Inv_70010095274.pdf' '/Reporting/Inv_7001009'
841 '5308.pdf' '/Reporting/Inv_70010095332.pdf' '/Reporting/Inv_7'
901 '0010095357.pdf' '/Reporting/Inv_70010095571.pdf' '/Reporting'
961 '/Inv_70010095589.pdf' '/Reporting/Inv_70010095597.pdf' '/Rep'
1021 'orti'

I believe the error created in job log for concatenation command is
because of this truncation...

The value of s_index doesn't really matter at this point; I'm using it

here (for value of 1) only to initialize v_pdffiles...

Thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:33 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Variable length

If you take option D (dump) when received *escape message on the
concatenation command error, what is the content of v_PDFFiles and
v_Index in the dump spool file.


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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florin Todor - YYZ

Concord
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:40 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Variable length

D v_PDFFiles S 1700 varying
D v_Index S 2 0

.............................................

If v_Index = 1;
v_PDFFiles = '''' + c_Cst + %Trim(PDFName) + '''';
Else;
v_PDFFiles = v_PDFFILES + ' ''' + c_Cst + %Trim(PDFName) + '''';
Endif;

(c_cst = constant; PDFName = field from a file)

..............................................

The idea is to populate this variable with names of PDF files residing

in IFS (names are read from PDFName field from a file) in order to use

it as input parameter for concatenation of PDF's command.

If the number of read records exceed a certain value and the

v_PDFfiles

variable exceed 1024, the variable is truncated and, obviously, the
concatenation command ends in error...

Hopefully this will help.


Thank you




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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:07 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Variable length

BTW, I declared the variable in two ways: with and without "varying"

keyword, with the same results.

This sounds like a debugger issue, or at least not a Varying issue if

it

still happens when you don't specify the Varying keyword. Though
without code to see it's all guesswork.