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RE: Using eval on debug command line

Thanks Bill,
I was trying to copy contents of a long field to a DS, using:
EVAL myDS = longfield
- and that failed.

My idea was to be able to view contents of an approx 5000 char field
but I was hitting a limit of 1024 characters, so I had made a
5K DS with 1K fields and was using EVAL to copy to my DS


Scott K. pointed out I can overcome the 1K limit with "EVAL longvar :C 5000" (or similar)
which was news to me and works great and far better than my clumsy hack.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of WAJE0822
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:46 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Using eval on debug command line

I'm not sure what you're trying to do with the EVAL, but If you are trying to see the value of the DS, just use an EVAL = DataStructureNAME, if you're trying to change the DS, use an EVAL = DataStructureSubfield.
Hope this helps

Bill
On Sep 28, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Barbara. I'm too much an rpg hack, but I can change, someday, maybe.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:53 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Using eval on debug command line

On 9/27/2012 9:39 AM, Gary Thompson wrote:
Why do I get an "Assignment type error occurred."
when I code an eval on the debug command line that attempts to copy a
5k byte field into a data structure?


RPG considers a data structure to be also a character field, but the debugger thinks a data structure is just a data structure.

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