Re: Level breaks in *FREE FORm ( was EXCEPT & *PSSR)

Hi Frank

I believe you can /copy non-fully-free into a **free source member - now that could __really__ mess up the minds of the people who get to maintain the code later!

Yes, this article says yes - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/fully-free-form-rpg-new-71-and-72

When you code **FREE in line 1, the entire source member must contain only free-form code. If you need any fixed-form statements, such as a TAG statement, or I specs, you can put them in a /COPY file.

:)
Vern

On 2/14/2023 7:58 PM, Frank Kolmann wrote:

Thought free form did not handle level breaks.
I would be interested how to code L1 and  MR as well in free form.
Before SQL had FULL OUTER JOIN  using L1 and MR was the easiest way I had to join more than 3 files with disparate keys.

And no, never had problems maintaining Level breaks.
Only had problems with people who maintained the code who had no clue how level breaks worked and completely
(bad word here) the logic.

Frank


On 15/02/2023 9:34 am, Hiebert, Chris wrote:

Then came the day you had to maintain them and then wondered why anyone ever used them once RPG FREE was added.

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Chris Hiebert
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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Frank Kolmann
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 2:12 PM
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Subject: Re: EXCEPT & *PSSR

Ahhh  Level Breaks,  those were the days.  Like anything once you get to

know them you wonder why would you do it any other way.



Frank