Re: One function to Trim and Edit a number.

[John Rusling <jrusling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

That's -- a neat way to do it!

John b.

> > > > To me, it seemed/seems redundant to add a msg file entry AND place
> > > > comments in the pgm that echoed (almost exactly) what the msgid was.

> The solution to that is to use properly named constants instead of  
> literal message IDs.
>
> D $FILE_NOT_FOUND	C		CONST('XYZ9801')
> D $BAD_OPTION		C		CONST('XYZ1234')
>
>   /FREE
> 	sndPgmMsg( $FILE_NOT_FOUND :
> 		   $PROD_MSGF :
> 		   $PROD_LIB :
> 		   msgDta :
> 		   $MH_MSGT_ESCAPE )
>  /FREE
>
> Then the only time you need examine the message description is when  
> you format the msgDta or if you need to modify the text or  
> substitution data.
>
> Note that if you're clever you can have the sndPgmMsg function accept  
> an open number of substitution values and it can build a properly  
> formatted msgDta structure based on information about the message  
> description retrieved directly from the message file.
>
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.