RE: IFS File question

Thanks Luis and Joe. I tried the varchar thing but the data was overlapping
for some reason ( I wasn't clearing it perhaps). The %trimr worked.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IFS File question

On 10/30/2012 8:06 PM, Jack Tucky wrote:

if write(fd: %addr(indata): %size(indata))<1;

Change this to:

if write(fd: %addr(indata): %len(%trimr(indata)))<1;


The first parameter %addr(indata) is just a pointer to the first byte of the
data. It then write how ever many bytes you tell it in the second
parameter. %len(%trimr(indata)) will calculate the number of bytes to the
last non-blank character. Note the use of %trimr: that makes sure you don't
reduce the length too much when there are leading blanks.

Luis' idea of copying to a varying field will work too, but it takes a
little more work. I think this what I posted above is the better solution.

Joe

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