Re: Value in field does not match database????

Your error had nothing to do with it being a packed number (that would be a compiler error if a packed number was not allowed) but rather the fact that the parameter wasn't an integer. You may have known that the value always contained whole numbers, but the compiler can't make that assumption. Since you can't take a substring that starts in the middle of a character, you can't have decimal places in the start position.

You can prove this to yourself by forcing the calculation to be an integer e.g. somevar = %SUBST(somevar: 5: %Int(parm_length - 4));

On Sep 7, 2019, at 12:28 AM, Javier Sánchez <javiersanchezbarquero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Today I was compiling a program in which a wanted to assign a substring
some value from a starting point, and this was a variable of type
PACKED(15:5) which in time I defined like that because it comes from the
command line. I had a compiler error claiming that the type of parameter 3
was in fact an expression like:
somevar = %SUBST(somevar: 5: parm_length - 4);

where parm_length comes as a parameter from the command line as a
PACKED(15:5). This was the cause of the error. I decided to declare
another INT(10) variable to which I assigned the value of parm_length minus
4 and replaced it in parameter 3 of the %SUBST. And it compiled. I didn't
have the time to investigate that but I could solve the inconvenience.

I would imagine that maybe something like that could be bothering you as
your variable for the starting point is exactly a PACKED(5) one. Maybe
PACKED variables are not welcome in %SUBST now.

It's only an opinion that would probably have more comments by the way.

Javier Sanchez.
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