Re: RFE for your perusal

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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/30/2019 
11:16:35 AM:
> Have you ever gotten an RNX0100 as a result of a %subst(string: start:
> length) pointing beyond the end of a string? This shouldn't happen. Even 
at
> run-time. Instead %subst() should return an empty string, or whatever it
> can if either start or length fall beyond the end of the string. Instead 
if
> either start or length fall beyond the end of the string, you get an
> RNX0100 at run time.


        Personally, I am against having a built-in function NOT tell you 
that your parameters are out of range and simply return what it can.  Just 
my opinion, obviously, but I feel this encourages sloppy programming.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark