Re: Convert from free to fixed

Probably for the same reasons you do some of the things in your shop - it is the standard set by someone other than you, and you want to keep your job!

:-)

Vern

On 9/28/2010 2:08 AM, David FOXWELL wrote:

Would someone please say why one would want to do this?

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Objet : RE: Convert from free to fixed

It hurts just to look at it in fixed format.......


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
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On 2010/9/27 5:26 PM, Gary Kuznitz wrote:

Ok, I know everyone is going to cringe on this one.

I'm having trouble converting from RPGLE free to fixed

format with this statement:

/free
fnd = %lookup(%subst(bighunkdata:gt:len) : xmlfield ); /end-free

I can't resist a challenge ...

Steve Needles already posted this solution that is guaranteed
to be equivalent to the original:
c eval fnd =
c %lookup(%subst(bighunkdata:gt:len):xmlfield)

In case that's still too free, here's another (untested)
version that I believe is also equivalent.
C *like define xmlfield temp
C len subst(p) bighunkdata:gttemp
C z-add 1 fnd
C temp lookup xmlfield(fnd)
10
C *in10 ifeq *off
C z-add 0 fnd
C endif
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