Re: Passing a Char to a Varchar in RPGLE Procedure Interface

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of course then you'd still need a wrapper...

Charles

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> How about creating a command front end to use when invoking from CLLE?
>
> The command definition language supports varying parms.
>
> Charles
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Mike Pantzopoulos <
> Mike.Pantzopoulos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there is any way  that a Char value can be passed to a
> > sub-procedure such that it ends up as a Varchar inside the procedure.
> > In other words, the parameter interface is defined as Varchar(1024), but
> > the value passed is defined as Char(512). I want to be able to invoke the
> > procedure from both RPGLE and CLLE, and as CLLE does not have a native
> > VARCHAR definition I was hoping to be able to get the parameter passing
> > mechanism to do this on-the-fly.
> >
> > I know how to create a VARCHAR like value in CL, but don't want fellow
> > developers to have to go through this pain to use my sub-procedure..
> >
> > TIA...
> >
> >
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