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Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data

On 11/30/2011 11:20 AM, Scott Klement wrote:
This sort of thing is the reason IBM increased the size of strings
in 6.1.

Yeah, which is why I got kind of excited for a justification to upgrade to 6.1. Sadly, it was premature.

If you want to stick with RPG 5.4

Want? :)

you're going to have to either use the C functions, or write your
own functions equivalent to the RPG (or C) ones.

Pretty much the conclusion I came to.

Or do the whole project in a different language. (Java, maybe?)

The function I'm enhancing is already embedded pretty deep in the RPG code ... ripping it out and re-engineering it would be very difficult and probably cause a significant performance problem.

Thanks though.

david




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