Re: RFE for your perusal

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/30/2019
01:09:53 PM:

Real quick: what does this do?

%subst(string: 1: %min(10: %len(string)))

now, what does this do?

%subst(string: 1: 10)

I would actually prefer %left(string: 10), but that is not an option.

You prefer the first? I don't.

Actually, I prefer neither -- if, as you say, either can fail at
execution time.

I also don't see the second as sloppy.

I do -- if it can fail at execution time.

I see that as wasted effort.

I don't -- to prevent failures t execution time.

Here is a solution for you that doesn't require IBM to waste their
time and money changing something that works just fine as it is... Create
a service procedure called "fuzzy_subst()" (or something similar) and then
always use that service procedure instead of using %subst() directly.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark