The equal sign makes it a bool comparison. The CONST allows the char field to cast the bool to a string. Not sure what false would cast to however. My best guess at least.
On Fri, 2021-07-16 at 10:24 -0500, DEnglander--- via RPG400-L wrote:
I have a piece of code that compiles with no errors. It runs, but doesn't
do anything.
Here is the code:
wrt_job_log('*** ' + %trim(sdprogram) = ': Price Change Report ' +
'has completed for Customer #' +
%trim(%editc(e1cust : 'X')) + '.');
I accidentally typed an equal sign and it should be a plus sign right
before the colon. The compiler took it, compiled it with no error, but
when the program gets to the line, it doesn't write a job log entry.
Once I saw the problem, I changed the = to a plus, recompiled and reran.
There is now an entry in the joblog.
Prototype wrt_job_log accepts a CHAR(512) field with CONST defined.
Is this a compiler bug?
Doug
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