Re: simple problem with string handling

Alan,

I should be clear that I'm not agreeing with this - I'm saying I think it's
how things are.

For my part, although I've been doing basic ILE-type stuff since the
late-90's (procedures, modules, service programs, free-format code and,
yes, varying strings) and more complex things (recursion, procedure
pointers, MI, C and C++ API usage) since the early-00's, it's only in the
last few months that I have started using the '+=' and '-=' BIF's. I just
never saw the benefit of 'A += 1' rather than 'A = A + 1'. Now I use them,
I see the benefit (less code, clearer code). I suspect the same goes for
varying strings

Rory


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Then everyone should have stayed with RPG III? Unfortunately for the i
Series, too many have.


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Scott,

This isn't the first poster who has expressed concern about whether a

move

from a varying string to a fixed string will cause problems somehow. It's
just an 'education' thing - if people are used to working with fixed
strings, they may just be wary of spending the time to figure out the
benefits of varying strings. Better the devil you know and all that.

Rory


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Scott Klement <

rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

IMHO, varying strings are much more elegant to work with. Even if it
doesn't save any CPU cycles, it just makes your code easier to write.

What's the advantage to sticking with fixed-length strings?

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