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On 11/04/2010, at 11:58 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

Therein lies the rub. Maybe I want to propagate *- through the length of a
string, by setting the first 2 bytes to '*-' and then doing an operation
like %subst(mystring: 3) = mystring. I won't get it that way, you're
saying, and I think that's a loss of function.


You might WANT to do it that way but you don't NEED to do it that way-- at least not in RPG.

D myString S 256
C MOVE *ALL'*-' myString
C EVAL myString = *ALL'*-'
/FREE
myString = *ALL'*-';

same result--more obvious code. COBOL has support for ALL literal too but I'm afraid certain less feature rich languages do not. Oh well.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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