Re: Advantages of RPG

On 25/06/2008, at 10:47 AM, Tom Liotta wrote:

Given the added bit -- "SPACE could be any character" -- that makes
useful sense to me. Yet, the noted issue was with the STRING verb.
COBOL MOVE already performs padding with SPACE when appropriate.
STRING, however, seems pretty explicit in how it doesn't pad.

OK, now I'm frightened. I haven't used COBOL in a long time but I was always of the opinion that you needed to move spaces before moving a shorter value into a longer in COBOL.

I just tested this and see that padding does occur on elementary moves.

So did I know this once and have now forgotten? Did I never know this and so was moving spaces unnecessarily? Is my mind starting to fail? Am I becoming "normal"? How will I ever cope?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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