Re: parse a negative number out of a before image string

thanks - but now i've run into a situation where i need to put the clear
text packed value back to the buffer string in it's true byte
length (unclear text form)...
so I would think all i have to do is...

d ds_charArea ds 31 qualified
d zoned 31s 0 overlay(ds_charArea:1)
d packed 31p 0 overlay(ds_charArea:1)

ds_charArea.packed = %dec(l_clearTextValue:31:0);
l_unClearTextValue = %subst(ds_charArea
:1
:l_byteLength);

but ds_charArea only appears to be blank everytime.

any ideas?

jay

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 4:44 PM <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/28/2020
04:21:59 PM:

dcl-proc GetBufferPiece export;
dcl-pi *n varchar(256);
string_buffer char(65536) options(*varsize);
piece_type char(1) const;
beg_byte_pos packed(5:0);
max_byte_len packed(3:0);
max_scale packed(2:0) options(*omit);
end-pi;

Last thought... The last three parameters can all have the
"const" keyword on them.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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