RE: Variable Length records

[cmassoglia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles L. Massoglia)]

>On Monday, August 24, 1998 2:50 PM, John Earl [SMTP:johnearl@toolnet.com] 
>wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to define a variable length field in
>> RPG?  I nle length (to a journal entry), but I havn't found
>> a way to do this in my RPG program.... short of using an
>> externally described record.  Is there an easier way?
>
In RPG/400 and RPG IV you can compile using CVTOPT(*VARCHAR) to force the
variable length fields to be declared as fixed length character fields.  If
I remember properly the first 2 characters represent a binary value of the
length of the data in the field.

>John,
>  On V4R2 at least, you can specify VARYING on your RPGLE D spec, like so:
>D MyVarLenStr     S            128A   Varying
>
>Check the manual; varlen strings are handled a bit differently than 
>fixed-length strings.
>
>Buck Calabro
>Commsoft, Albany, NY
>mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
>
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