RE: Two '=' On A Single Line

["Jerry Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>]

Exactly, Vern.  I am such a lousy typist that the first thing I do with a program that does not compile, is scan the listing for 7030 (undefined field) errors.  Correcting those usually lets the program compile!

Jerry C. Adams
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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of VERNON HAMBERG Owner via RPG400-L
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2024 10:48 AM
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Cc: VERNON HAMBERG Owner; rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Two '=' On A Single Line

The = sign has precedence as a comparison operator - I think Jerry forgot to have the shift key down, he maybe meant this -


        Lines(x) = %trim(city) + ', ' + state + ' ';


Cheers
Vern


On Fri, 5 Apr, 2024 at 9:46 AM, Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 

To: rpg programming on ibm i

Ugh.. my wife just had eye surgery too (detached retina at 53yo! and now
because of that cataract surgery soon)  Hope you're doing better.

Anyhow, I don't think it threw a compile error because it's really not an
error.  I'm sure Barbara can chime in on the details.. .I ran some tests:

number = 1 + 3 = 9;

this DID get a compile error (number is defined as 10i 0).

string = 'test' + 'this' = ' ';

This compiled, but string = '0' (zero) when done.

Weird.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 9:18 AM Jerry Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:

> Boy, was I having a bad day today.  Must be a result of the recent eye
> surgery, but that's a lame excuse.
>
>
>
> Anyway, I got everything working in the new SQLRPGLE program, but one thing
> is still puzzling me.  That is, I would have thought would have thrown a
> compile error.
>
>
>
>           Lines(x) = %trim(city) + ', ' + state = ' ';
>
>
>
> The end result was that the Line(x) element resulted in blanks.
>
>
>
> I can accuse the surgery for my part because I kept reading the second = as
> a +.  But why did I not get a compile error?
>
>
>
> Jerry C. Adams
>
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