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  3. April 2010

Re: Redefining a DS

Simon Coulter wrote:
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.


As I noted in my previous post, you can't set the buffer to a computed value. A syntax like *ALL(varname) would fix that, but alas there is no such thing. So yes, as Dennis points out, the assumption (whoever makes it, compiler or OS) creates a loss of function, however minor.

Joe


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