RE: Finding the length of a passed parameter

["York, Albert" <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Normally I would know the length.

However, I am writing a program which will accept a variable number of
parameters of different length. I can easily find out how many parameters
were passed but I am looking for a way to find out how long each one is. In
my program I can allow for the maximum length and subscript as needed.

For example: 

*ENTRY   PLIST
                   PARM              PARM01     256
               PARM              PARM02     256

Albert York                          
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Narayanan R Pillai [SMTP:strqst400@xxxxxxxxx]
        Sent:   Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:33 PM
        To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
        Subject:        Re: Finding the length of a passed parameter

        On Wednesday 17 September 2003 20:16, Barbara Morris wrote:
        > Narayanan R Pillai wrote:
        > > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 18:17, York, Albert wrote:
        > > > Is there an API which will give me the actual length of a
parameter
        > > > that is passed to my program?
        > >
        > > If you are using ILE, CEEDOD
        >
        > But CEEDOD only works with bound calls, not program calls.

        Oh absolutely, he said ginning sheepishly, that and if you use
OpDesciptors( 
        OPDESC) . However, if you are passing through a CALL, would  you not
already 
        know the length, even if you are passing pointers ? 

        Narayanan 
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