Re: RdLine with variable length field

Thanks for the replies Eric & Scott. I'll give Scott's suggestion a try -
at least to see if I can get it working.

"Though, personally, I'd suggest eliminating rdline as it's extremely
inefficient."

Scott - do you have any recommended alternatives to rdline that I could
use to 'rip & replace' ?

This is one of my early socket programs using the 'spawning' approach
described in Scott's tutorial. It's worked great for one of our lab
interfaces which used a fixed length "Input_string". We now have an
updated application for this lab e interface that now uses a variable
length "Input_String" - hence my problem. We are getting more requests for
lab interfaces and as time goes by I suspect we will be getting more
disparate Input_Strings and it would be nice to have an application in
place that will accept variable length data from multiple facilities.

Thanks!

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623-4299
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