Re: RPG IV value as var

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RPG is a compiled language.

Variable names don't really exist.  They exist for the convenience of 
human beings (computer programmers) who find it easier to understand 
data if it's given a name.  However, the compiler runs, it generates 
code that asks the operating system for locations in the computer's main 
storage, and then stores the data into those memory addresses.

So when the program is running, there are no variables.  There's just 
addresses in the computer's main storage.  Variable names are SOURCE 
CODE, not compiled code.  They do no good at run time.

Why not use a subprocedure?



PEPITOVADECURT wrote:
> Is posible to assign a content from variable to a variable name?
>
> Example in series:
>
> 0058.00      C                     MOVE 'DS1'     SSS     3 
>
> 0059.00      C                     Z-ADDO6ICAG    SSS,1 
>
> 0060.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IICD    SSS,2 
>
> 0061.00      C                     Z-ADDO6ICEE    SSS,3 
>
> 0062.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IMCE    SSS,4 
>
> 0063.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IOCE    SSS,5 
>
> 0064.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IREN    SSS,6 
>                         0065.00      C                     MOVE 'DS2' 
>    SSS     3
> 0066.00      C                     Z-ADDO6ICAG    SSS,1 
>
> 0067.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IICD    SSS,2 
>
> 0068.00      C                     Z-ADDO6ICEE    SSS,3 
>
> 0069.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IMCE    SSS,4 
>
> 0070.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IOCE    SSS,5 
>
> 0071.00      C                     Z-ADDO6IREN    SSS,6
>
> *** Compile error