Re: VarChar to Char Field, Shouldn't This Work?

[Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is the value of the varying field (EDI850_PO1_Record.UnitPrice)
immediately prior to the EVAL? Can you check it in debug?

Quick answer is I don't think you're missing anything - if the length is
smaller than the length of the target, the target field will be padded with
blanks. If the length is longer than the target, then it will be truncated.

I suspect you have somehow overwritten the initial 2 bytes of the varying
field with data - perhaps you have used a pointer somewhere and forgotten
to do that whole '+2' bit? This looks like some EDI processing - could it
be that it's been defined in a data-structure incorrectly?

Rory

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a RPG field defined as VarChar(17) and a file field defined as
> Char(17). I thought I could do an eval on the two and it would work.
>
>    EDI850_Detail_Out.UnitPrice = EDI850_PO1_Record.UnitPrice
>
> In the above, PO1 is the varchar field. I am getting the following error:
> "Length of varying length variable is out of range."
>
> Am I forgetting something? My head has been stuck in the .NET world a bit
> too long me thinks....
>
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