Re: RFE for your perusal

BTW, the SQL substr() works as expected. The RPG %subst() does not. But I
don't really want to call into the database just to have it do basic string
handling.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 2:20 PM Mark Murphy <jmarkmurphy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well I guess that's the difference between us, you would prefer to write
procedures to fix deficiencies in the compiler, I would prefer the compiler
was improved.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 1:28 PM <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"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
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