Re: String frustration

["Crispin Bates" <cbates@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps a dumb question. Are you breaking on the line where mdatetime is 
assigned a value, or after it is assigned a value?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McKee" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:17 PM
Subject: String frustration


> First, I know this is not an RPG list.
>
> I apologize for asking what, to me, seems an especially dumb question.
>
> But, I am clearly missing something.  I finally had the time to 
> incorporate the
> code Scott posted that he uses to format the Date:.  My attempt is 
> resulting in
> no Date: header.  Using debug, I can comfirm that Scott's code works, and 
> very
> nicely.  I am, however, managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of 
> victory, as
> the Date" header I try to construct shows as totally bklank in debug.
>
> So, maybe I am defining something incorrectly?
>
> Below is the D spec and the attempted assignment statemant:
>
> D mdatetime       s            256a
>
>                    mdatetime = 'Date: ' + Temp + ' ' + tz;
>
>
> What I am lost on is I tried a fixed format EVAL as well.  The Temp and tz
> variables have values.  But, the variable I am trying to build does not 
> even
> have 'Date: '.
>
> Again, I apologize for asking an RPG question, and likely a very basic one 
> at
> that.
>
> John McKee
>
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