Re: RPG Compiler Question

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I’ll bet it concatenated the value of MyKey6 to the literal ‘R’. 

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> On Aug 15, 2018, at 9:34 AM, Vinay Gavankar <vinaygav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a logical file with 6 keys.
>
> We had following code running in Production for about 8 months:
>
> Setll (MyKey1:MyKey2:MyKey3:MyKey4:'R' +
>                   MyKey6) MyFile ;
> If not %eof(MyFile) ;
> ReadE (MyKey1:MyKey2:MyKey3:MyKey4:'R' +
>                   MyKey6) MyFile ;
>
> We recently discovered the missing colon between the 5th and 6th key when
> trying to find the root cause of some missing data in the file. It seemed
> that the 2 statements were being executed with just 5 keys.
>
> I was wondering what the compiler did with the 6th parameter in the
> statements. When I changed MyKey6 to an undefined variable, the compiler
> gave an error.
>
> TIA
>
> Vinay
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