Re: Concat an entire array

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jeff said one thing that puzzles me. He said it's always filled with
semicolons... That's weird. Why would you use an array for something like
that? Just do this:

string = *all';';

now the string is filled with all semicolons. isn't that a lot easier?

Yes it is, and I like it.

This is for a new application where I need to create a number of files that
will be FTP'ed offsite. Each file has a variable number of fields with a
semicolon as the field separator.

Each file has, as the last record, a BATCHCONTROL record with file totals,
I need to put a variable number of semicolons at the end of this batch
control record so this record has the same number of fields as the detail
records in the file. I want to use the exact same logic in each program
that builds a file and, for some reason, got fixated on using an array and
just setting the DIM of the array to the number of semicolons I need. But
it's even simpler to just define a field in the program to the size I need
initialized to semicolons and use it. Duh.