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Re: %str() use discouraged?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:04 PM Francois Lavoie
<Francois.Lavoie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The getenv function returns a pointer to a string (doc doesn't say null-terminated string)

But it's a C function, and in C, strings are null-terminated.

So, my assumption is that the %str function is useless with getenv
Just this will work too:
getenv('some_var')='some_value';

It shouldn't, unless you've written your own ILE procedure called
`getenv` which wraps up C's `getenv` such that the conversion to
RPG-style string is encapsulated in the ILE procedure.

John Y.

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