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I would not have expected either to work with a TEMPLATE.

When you specify a data structure as a TEMPLATE, there is no memory allocated for it. This is why it will not work with %LEN. The data structure does not actually exist in memory so %LEN cannot determine its length.

Perhaps %SIZE works because it looks at the definition of the structure and not the actual instance of it.

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marco Facchinetti
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:25 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RNF0655 The item defined with the TEMPLATE keyword cannot be used in this context

Just curious why an item defined with the TEMPLATE keyword is valid as %SIZE's argument but not for %LEN.

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