RE: Assigning a value to a DDS varlen defined field -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: Assigning a value to a DDS varlen defined field
From: Kurt Anderson <kurt.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:20:26 -0600
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Me:

ought to work as it's defined as varying.

I'm not sure where Varying comes into play on this statement. It would work the same even if XCVAR1 wasn't Varying.
XCVAR1 = 'false' + XCVAR1;

Me again:
Ok, well yes, if XCVAR1 is Varying then the statement would set the length, which would not occur if it wasn't Varying. What I meant to say is that the left-most value is the same for both Varying and non-Varying.

-Kurt

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