Re: Interactive logic-style question

A case in point: The following is a list of our S/36 product libraries :-)

ÑCGULIB
ÑCOBLIB
ÑDFULIB
ÑDSULIB
ÑLIBRARY
ÑRPGLIB
ÑSDALIB
ÑSEULIB


Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
--


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Kurt Anderson <Kurt.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Oh I see, yeah manually dealing with it would be a pain.
And sure, that may not be a pretty prefix to a variable name. I see your
point.

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst – Application Development, Service Delivery

Platform

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis
Rodriguez
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:47 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Interactive logic-style question

Kurt,

Suppose I just copy & paste Bob's code... I must translate all his "#" to
my "Ñ" .

What happens here is that # is not a part (IIRC) of EBCDIC's "invariant
character set", symbols that do not change betwen code pages like, for
example, 'a' thru 'z', digits, %, =, etc.

Besides, Ñ just look awful as part of a field name :-)

Regards,

Luis.


Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
--


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Kurt Anderson <

Kurt.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Is the "Ñ" an acceptable character for naming on the IBM i with that
CCSID? If so, I don't see a problem. If not, that sucks b/c # is an
acceptable character for naming in English so why isn't the

"translated"

character acceptable?

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst – Application Development, Service Delivery
Platform

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Cagle
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:22 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: RE: Interactive logic-style question

Luis - that's a good reason. It's really the only valid one I've ever
heard, but it's a good one.

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:14 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Interactive logic-style question

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

(p.s. It's a whole other discussion, but I don't understand why some
people are so opposed to using special characters (@, #, $) in
variable
names?)

Bob,

An issue could be that some characters "map" differently in other code
pages. For example, your "#" must be translated to "Ñ" (a N with a
tilde on
top) in our CCSID(284) (Spanish) system. Ugh...

Regards,


Luis Rodriguez

--
This is the RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
(RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a
moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.

--
This is the RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
(RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a
moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.

--
This is the RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) (RPG400-L)
mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To

subscribe,

unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.

--
This is the RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) (RPG400-L)
mailing list
To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.

--
This is the RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) (RPG400-L)
mailing list
To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.